Understanding Evil seeks to articulate the evil that happened in
Bosnia within the context of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. Its analysis centers on the question of whether it is
possible to understand evil as action. Since the foundations of the
social are found in human action, evil's assault on these
foundations results in the demise of the social. While evil
simulates the outer form of action, ultimately evil belies itself
as action. Can someone act with an evil end? Socrates says no, no
one willingly does evil. Although, with a mixture of reason and
empiricism, the author tries hard to overcome the Socratic
positionasearching for evil's agency, purpose, means, conditions,
and ethosain the end, the search fails. The author concludes by
accepting the Socratic position: action whose end is evil is
unthinkable. This tack provides an alternative to recent theorizing
about evil by philosophers such as Richard Bernstein and Jeffrey
Alexander.The book understands evil via a neologismaas sociocide,
the murdering of society. In Bosnia, not only were families
destroyed, but their homes as well. Not only were bridges,
libraries, schools, mosques, and churches demolished, but towns and
cities were obliterated. Bosnian Muslims were murdered behind the
mindless rhetoric of "ethnic cleansing," and their history and
collective memory were viciously attacked. In the first case, the
social violence is called "domicide," in the second, "urbicide,"
and in the third, "genocide." In Bosnia, however, war took on a
truly twisted orientation. Not only were social structures and
institutions attacked, but society itself became the target. The
book develops the significance of sociocide as theconsequence of
evil in order to understand the suffering and tragedy of people and
communities in Bosnia.
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