Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective EvildoingCambridge University Press, 1. 12. 2005. - 313 страница Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, Professor Vetlesen argues that to do evil is to intentionally inflict pain on another human being, against his or her will, and causing serious and foreseeable harm. Vetlesen investigates why and in what sort of circumstances such a desire arises, and how it is channeled, or exploited, into collective evildoing. He argues that such evildoing, pitting whole groups against each other, springs from a combination of character, situation, and social structure. By combining a philosophical approach inspired by Hannah Arendt, a psychological approach inspired by C. Fred Alford and a sociological approach inspired by Zygmunt Bauman, and bringing these to bear on the Holocaust and ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, Vetlesen shows how closely perpetrators, victims, and bystanders interact, and how aspects of human agency are recognized, denied, and projected by different agents. |
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... Three lessons of moral failure 253 Collective agency and its disaggregation 257 Truth commissions , trials , and testimonies 265 272 281 Reconciliation , forgiveness , and collective guilt Assuming viii List of contents.
... Three lessons of moral failure 253 Collective agency and its disaggregation 257 Truth commissions , trials , and testimonies 265 272 281 Reconciliation , forgiveness , and collective guilt Assuming viii List of contents.
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Understanding Collective Evildoing Arne Johan Vetlesen. 272 281 Reconciliation , forgiveness , and collective guilt Assuming vicarious responsibility and guilt 6 A political postscript : globalization and the discontents of the self ...
Understanding Collective Evildoing Arne Johan Vetlesen. 272 281 Reconciliation , forgiveness , and collective guilt Assuming vicarious responsibility and guilt 6 A political postscript : globalization and the discontents of the self ...
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... forgive- ness ? Focusing on organized rape in particular , I show how producing shame in the victims relieves the rapists of feelings of guilt . There is a struggle both to rid oneself of agency ( responsibility , accountability ) and ...
... forgive- ness ? Focusing on organized rape in particular , I show how producing shame in the victims relieves the rapists of feelings of guilt . There is a struggle both to rid oneself of agency ( responsibility , accountability ) and ...
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The limitations of Alfords approach | 140 |
The logic and practice of collective evil ethnic cleansing in Bosnia | 145 |
Approaches to ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia | 148 |
What is genocide? | 154 |
The explosive dialectic of individualization and collectivism | 159 |
Ethnic cleansing as a case of securitization | 167 |
The differences between individual and collective evil | 170 |
Genocidal logic and the collectivization of agency | 175 |
Rendering human beings superfluous | 47 |
Hannah Arendt on conscience and the banality of evil | 52 |
Assessing the influence of St Augustine | 54 |
the Socratic bottom line | 57 |
Conscience and temptation | 63 |
Did Eichmann have a conscience? | 69 |
The notion of conscience in Heideggers Being and Time | 71 |
Arendts advocacy of the Socratic model of conscience | 77 |
Double dehumanization and human agency | 84 |
Eichmann meets Storfer | 89 |
The attraction of superfluousness | 98 |
The psychologic of wanting to hurt others An assessment of C Fred Alfords work on evil | 104 |
Evil is pleasure in hurting and lack of remorse | 106 |
Kleins positions of experience | 113 |
the role of culture | 120 |
Evil as envy | 124 |
Problems with Alfords theory | 128 |
Identifying with Eichmann | 135 |
Girards theory of the surrogate victim | 182 |
The design of genocide as ethnic cleansing | 188 |
its nature and function | 196 |
Rape shame and agency | 203 |
Responses to collective evil | 220 |
How to pass judgment on evil? | 221 |
A culture of indifference | 229 |
when inaction makes for complicity | 235 |
the follies of impartiality enacted as neutrality | 241 |
Three lessons of moral failure | 253 |
Collective agency and its disaggregation | 257 |
Truth commissions trials and testimonies | 265 |
Reconciliation forgiveness and collective guilt | 272 |
Assuming vicarious responsibility and guilt | 281 |
A political postscript globalization and the discontents of the self | 289 |
References | 299 |
Index | 310 |
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