{"product_id":"perspectives-on-evil-from-banality-to-genocide-9789004365827","title":"Perspectives on Evil: From Banality to Genocide","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe question of evil is one of the oldest and most intensely studied topics in intellectual history. In fiction, legend and mythology the boundary between good and evil is often depicted as clear-cut, at least to the reader or listener, who is supposed to understand such tales as lessons and warnings. Evil is something that must be avoided by the hero in some cases and vanquished in others; it is either the exact opposite of the expected good behaviour, or its complete absence. Even so, for the characters in these didactic fictions, it turns out to be deceptively easy to fall to the infernal, ‘dark’ side. This volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of contributors to chart events and deeds of an ‘evil’ nature that have been lived in the (recent) past and have become part of history, from individual to institutionalised evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    Introduction   Kanta Dihal    Part 1  The Banality and the Familiarity of Evil    1 From Victims to Perpetrators: the Banality of Evil in Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones   Damian Catani  2 Unspeakable Banality: Discourse in Dispute   Cassie Pedersen    Part 2  Genocide in Rwanda    3 In Plain Sight: the Ethics of Proximity in the Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide   Sarah Gendron  4 On the Role of Nation-States in Regulating Evil: a Case Study on Rwanda   Sally Nadeau  5 Extraordinary Forgiveness   Jennifer Vanderheyden    Part 3  Capitalism and the Socio-Psychology of Evil    6 Late Capitalism, Psychopathy and the Ontology of Evil   Helen Patey  7 Psychologising Evil in the Media: a Market-Like Exchange of Political Responsibility for Isolation in the Greek Crisis Environment   Sophia Kanaouti  8 The Fury of ‘Ressentiment’: Binary Codes, Evil and Society   Spiros Gangas  9 On the Usefulness of Being Unrealistic: a Critique of Freud’s Arguments against Neighbour Love   Regan Lance Reitsma    Part 4  Dehumanization, the Law and the Prison    10 Socio-Spatial Scripts: Evil and the Contestation of Space and Being   Rallie Murray  11 The Intersection between Evil and Architecture: Environment and Agency   Robert W. Butler  12 Choosing between Two Evils: a Philosophical Consideration of the Defences of Necessity and Duress in English Law   Stephen Banks    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210749829463,"sku":"9789004365827","price":68.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-evil-from-banality-to-genocide-9789004365827","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}