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Evil and Human Agency: Understanding Collective Evildoing [Kietas viršelis]

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(Universitetet i Oslo)
  • Formatas: Hardback, 328 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x19 mm, weight: 610 g
  • Serija: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2005
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521856949
  • ISBN-13: 9780521856942
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 328 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 229x152x19 mm, weight: 610 g
  • Serija: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Dec-2005
  • Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521856949
  • ISBN-13: 9780521856942
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Raktažodžiai:
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.

Recenzijos

'This book is an excellent and brave contribution to a complex topic - balanced, well-argued, informative. I recommend it to all philosophers, sociologists, and psychologists who have research interests in understanding large-scale atrocities.' Claudia Card, Philosophy Review 'Vetlesen has developed a solid, well-structured and groundbreaking argument that merits a core position in the literature on collective evildoing and genocide.' Journal of Peace Research 'Vetlesen brings to light the paradox of moral responsibility in Arendt's analysis of Eichmann's actions. Evil and Human Agency is both timely and deserving of wide readership, not only by sociologists, philosophers, and psychologists, but also by politicians and political scientists. Vetlesen stresses the moral failure of bystanders who, in wishing to remain neutral and impartial, did nothing to stop atrocities from occurring. Vetlesen's thoughtful approach in Evil and Human Agency challenges both the Aristotelian and the Kantian view that egoism is at the root of evildoing Vetlesen's approach to evildoing, then, is useful to show how we might avoid such atrocities in the future.' The Journal of Value Inquiry

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This 2005 book investigates why and in what sort of circumstances evil desire arises, and how it is channeled into collective evildoing.
Preface xi
A note on the cover image xii
Introduction 1(13)
The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust
14(38)
Introduction
14(1)
The Holocaust as modernity's window
15(6)
Reformulating the relationship between society and morality
21(2)
The many meanings of proximity
23(4)
Uncoupling responsibility from reciprocity
27(2)
Goldhagen's challenge
29(4)
Reassessing Bauman's thesis in the light of recent scholarship
33(8)
Mistaking the bureaucratic design for the reality
41(6)
Rendering human beings superfluous
47(5)
Hannah Arendt on conscience and the `banality' of evil
52(52)
Introduction
52(2)
Assessing the influence of St Augustine
54(3)
`I cannot possibly want to become my own adversary': the Socratic bottom line
57(6)
Conscience and temptation
63(6)
Did Eichmann have a conscience?
69(2)
The notion of conscience in Heidegger's Being and Time
71(6)
Arendt's advocacy of the Socratic model of conscience
77(7)
Double dehumanization and human agency
84(5)
Lessons of an unforeseen proximity: Eichmann meets Storfer
89(9)
The attraction of superfluousness
98(6)
The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others: An assessment of C. Fred Alford's work on evil
104(41)
Introduction
104(2)
`Evil is pleasure in hurting and lack of remorse'
106(7)
Klein's positions of experience
113(7)
Imagining evil as the alternative to doing it: the role of culture
120(4)
Evil as envy
124(4)
Problems with Alford's theory
128(7)
Identifying with Eichmann
135(5)
The limitations of Alford's approach
140(5)
The logic and practice of collective evil: `ethnic cleansing' in Bosnia
145(75)
Introduction
145(3)
Approaches to `ethnic cleansing' in the former Yugoslavia
148(6)
What is genocide?
154(5)
The explosive dialectic of individualization and collectivism
159(8)
`Ethnic cleansing' as a case of securitization
167(3)
The differences between individual and collective evil
170(5)
Genocidal logic and the collectivization of agency
175(7)
Girard's theory of the surrogate victim
182(6)
The design of genocide as `ethnic cleansing'
188(8)
Genocidal rape: its nature and function
196(7)
Rape, shame, and agency
203(17)
Responses to collective evil
220(69)
Introduction
220(1)
How to pass judgment on evil?
221(8)
A culture of indifference
229(6)
The responsibility of bystanders: when inaction makes for complicity
235(6)
Bosnia: the follies of impartiality enacted as neutrality
241(12)
Three lessons of moral failure
253(4)
Collective agency and its disaggregation
257(8)
Truth commissions, trials, and testimonies
265(7)
Reconciliation, forgiveness, and collective guilt
272(9)
Assuming vicarious responsibility and guilt
281(8)
A political postscript: globalization and the discontents of the self
289(10)
References 299(11)
Index 310


Arne Johan Vetlesen is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Norway. He is the author of over thirteen books including Perception, Empathy, and Judgement: An Inquiry into the Preconditions of Moral Performance (1994) and Closeness: An Ethics (with De Maleissye-Melun, 1997).