Promoting and producing evil

Promoting and producing evil

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The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be challenged, outraged, and disturbed by what you read here. The eighth gathering of Global Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in Salzburg in March 2007, provided a look at evil past, present, and future, from a bro…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Promoting and producing evil / edited by Nancy Billias.

Summary

The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be challenged, outraged, and disturbed by what you read here. The eighth gathering of Global Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, which took place in Salzburg in March 2007, provided a look at evil past, present, and future, from a broad spectrum of disciplinary perspectives. Papers were presented on the Holocaust, genocide, violence.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Rodopi
  • Place of Publication:Amsterdam
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xix, 308 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9789042029408, 9042029404, 9789042029392, 9042029390
  • oclc:ocn624178817
  • LC Classification:BJ1401
  • Dewey Decimal:170

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; PART I Linguistic Frameworks for Evil; Little White Lies: 9/11 and the Recasting of Evil through Metaphor; The Phenomenology of Domestic Violence: An Insider's Look; Side Effects of the Linguistic Construction of Others' Wickedness; PART II Literary Frameworks for Evil; Falling Under an Evil Influence; The Banality of Violence: From Kafka's The Castle to Auster's The Music of Chance; Sacred and (Sub)Human Pain: Witnessing Bodies in Early Modern Hagiography and Contemporary Spectatorship of Atrocity.

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Subjects

Conference papers and proceedings Good and evil Good and evil -- Congresses PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy PHILOSOPHY -- Social Violence Violence -- Congrès Violence -- Congresses

Writers

Billias, Nancy

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