First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally
published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity's
capacity for evil. The human species is capable of the most
appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such
destructiveness come from? In Human Destructiveness, Anthony Storr
explores these important questions. In seeking to shed light on
such brutal phenomena as genocide, racial conflict and other
large-scale manifestations of violence, he cautions against easy
extrapolations from individual behaviour to the behaviour of groups
and nations, though he offers illuminating discussions of
aggressive personality disorders, sadomasochism and the mechanisms
of paranoid delusion. Most provocatively, he locates the propensity
for mass outbreaks of cruelty in the imagination: 'to be able to
see fellow human beings as wholly evil requires an imaginative
capacity not found in other species.' Combining wide scholarship,
humane intelligence and a graceful style, Human Destructiveness
provides an illuminating study of some of the darkest corners of
the human psyche.
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