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Territories of evil /

(Number (ISBN

1435639049

(Number (ISBN

9042023694

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9401205604

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9781435639041

(Number (ISBN

9789042023697

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9789401205603

Erroneous ISBN

9042023694

Erroneous ISBN

9789042023697

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b719172

Title Proper

Territories of evil /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Nancy Ballias.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Rodopi,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (252 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations

Series Title

At the interface/probing the boundaries ;

Volume Designation

v. 45

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Text of Note

Territories of Evil; Contents; Introduction: Considering Evil; The Devil You Think You Know: A Psychology of Evil; How Civilians Became Targets: The Moral Catastrophe of "Collateral Damage"; Evil and the Loss of Intellect; Bonds of Authoritarianism and the Embodiment of Political Evil: An Interview with President Echeverría; Warfare, Pacifism, or Sabotage: Eastern Christian Responses to Political Aggression; The Uncanny and the Feminine Sublime in Japanese Political Fantasy; Demurring to Doom: The Geopolitics of Prevailing.

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Post-modern Narratives of Evil and 9-11: The Case of Frédéric BeigbederYou Are What You Eat: Cannibalism, Autophagy and the Case of Armin Meiwes; Adorno and the Guilt of Thinking; As Others See Us: A Critical Reflection of the Role of Humanitarian Landmine Action Organisations; 'Paedophiles' in Contemporary Culture; Terrorism: Within and Without; Born to be Bad or Born to Die? Evil and Finitude in Freud's Death Drive; Notes on Contributors.

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"Evil is not only an abstract concept to be analyzed intellectually, but a concrete reality that we all experience and wrestle with on an ongoing basis. To truly understand evil we must always approach it from both angles: the intellective and the phenomenological. This same assertion resounds through each of the papers in this volume, in which an interdisciplinary and international group (including nurses, psychologists, philosophers, professors of literature, history, computer studies, and all sorts of social science) presented papers on cannibalism, the Holocaust, terrorism, physical and emotional abuse, virtual and actual violence, and depravity in a variety of media, from film to literature to anime to the Internet. Conference participants discussed villains and victims, dictators and anti-heroes, from 921 A.D. to the present, and considered the future of evil from a number of theoretical perspectives. Personal encounters with evil were described and analyzed, from interviews with political leaders to the problems of locating and destroying land mines in previous war zones. The theme of responsibility and thinking for the future is very much at the heart of these papers: how to approach evil as a question to be explored, critiqued, interrogated, reflected upon, owned. The authors urge an attitude of openness to new interpretations, new perspectives, new understanding."--Jacket.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

00097999

Title

Territories of evil.

International Standard Book Number

9789042023697

Ethics, Congresses.

Good and evil, Congresses.

Ethics.

Good and evil.

PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

PHILOSOPHY-- Social.

PHI-- 005000

PHI-- 034000

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Edition

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Book number

Billias, Nancy.

Date of Transaction

20201208111118.0

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