| Description |
xii, 154 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary. Evil Defined. Look at Evil Behaviorally. Is Evil Real? Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? Overview of the Book -- Ch. 1. Confronting Evil and its Paradoxes. Arendt's View of Eichmann. Is a Dispassionate Study of Evil Possible? The Desire to Ignore Evil. People May Deliberately Engage in Evil Activities -- Ch. 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work. Incremental Processes. Packages and Riders. The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens -- Ch. 3. Some Faces of Evil. A Humane American Physician. An SS Physician. A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. My Lai -- Ch. 4. Conclusion: Turning away from Evil. A Fable About the Two Research-Minded Physicians. Raoul Wallenberg and Rudolf Hoess Revisited. The Compelling Power of Immediacy and Extricating Oneself from Taking Part in Evil. Another Look at the Five Paradoxes: Some Answers, Some New Questions, Some Hope. The Larger Picture |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
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Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel.
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Genocide.
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Good and evil -- Case studies.
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Good and evil -- Psychological aspects.
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My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968.
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| Author |
EBSCOhost
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| LC no. |
92015578 |
| ISBN |
0791414418 (alk. paper) |
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0791414426 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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