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Promoting and Producing Evil - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
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Promoting and Producing Evil - Second Edition (Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries, 63
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The essays in this volume provide rich fodder for reflection on
topics that are of urgent interest to all thinking people. Each one
suggests new ways to contemplate our own role(s) in the production
and promotion of evil. The authors encourage the reader to be
challenged, outraged, and disturbed by what you read here. The
eighth gathering of Global Perspectives on Evil and Human
Wickedness, which took place in Salzburg in March 2007, provided a
look at evil past, present, and future, from a broad spectrum of
disciplinary perspectives. Papers were presented on the Holocaust,
genocide, violence, sadism, paedophilia, physical, verbal, and
visual weapons of mass destruction, and on the effects of a variety
of media on our apperception of and responses to evil. One of the
overarching themes that emerged was the ethical role of the
observer or witness to evil, the sense that all of our writings
are, in an echo of Thomas Merton's salient phrase, the conjectures
of guilty bystanders. The notion of complicity was examined from a
number of angles, and imbued the gathering with a sense of urgency:
that our common goal was to engender change by raising awareness of
the countless and ubiquitous ways in which evil can be actively or
passively carried on and promoted. The papers selected for this
volume provide a representative sample of the lively, provocative,
and often disturbing discussions that took place over the course of
that conference. This volume also contains a few papers from a
sister conference, Cultures of Violence, which was held in Oxford
in 2004. These papers have been included here because of their
striking relevance to the themes that emerged in the Evil
conference of 2007.
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