Screen LibraryEvil and human agency：understanding collective evildoing
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge cultural social studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 313 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0521856949 (hbk.) 0521673577 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | B82 |
| CLC: | B82 |
| Call Number: | B82/V588 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-309) and index. The ordinariness of modern evildoers : a critique of Zygmut Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust -- Hannah Arendt on conscience and the "banality" of evil -- The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others : an assessment of C. Fred Alford's work on evil -- The logic and practice of collective evil : "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia -- Responses to collective evil -- A political postscript : globalization and the discontents of the self. |