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Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing (Paperback)
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Evil and Human Agency - Understanding Collective Evildoing (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative and
original approach to evil, 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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