Minding Evil

Explorations of Human Iniquity
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-420-1678-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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 studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sönser Breen, Margaret

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I: Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing
Frank FAULKNER and Graeme R. GOLDSWORTHY: No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century
Mark BURGESS, Neil FERGUSON, and Ian HOLLYWOOD: A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action
Haijing DAI: Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period
Part II: Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People
Samuel H. PILLSBURY: Speaking the Language of Evil
Diana MEDLICOTT: The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are
Wayne CRISTAUDO: Damage: A Logic of Evil
Part III: Evil and the Arts
Ted TURNAU: Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24
Vera B. PROFIT: The Devil’s Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s Der Verdacht
Elizabeth MCCARTHY: The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist
Part IV: Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities
Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate
Annette PANKRATZ: Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama
Karen D. HOFFMAN: Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account
Part V: Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions
Gideon CALDER: Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders
Stephen RILEY: Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice
William Andrew MYERS: Individual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past
Notes on Contributors