Minding Evil Explorations of Human Iniquity

• Main Author: Sönser Breen, Margaret
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2005
• Edition: 1

Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural s...

Table of Contents:

• Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Welcome to At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries -- Preface -- PART I Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing -- No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century -- A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action -- Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period -- PART II Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People -- Speaking the Language of Evil -- The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are -- Damage: A Logic of Evil -- PART III Evil and the Arts -- Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24 -- The Devil's Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Diirrenmatt's Der Verdacht -- The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist -- PART IV Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities -- The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate -- Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama -- Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account -- PART V Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions -- Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders -- Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice -- Individual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past -- Notes on Contributors