Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on the cover image
- Introduction
- 1 The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust
- 2 Hannah Arendt on conscience and the ‘banality’ of evil
- 3 The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others: An assessment of C. Fred Alford's work on evil
- 4 The logic and practice of collective evil: ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Bosnia
- 5 Responses to collective evil
- 6 A political postscript: globalization and the discontents of the self
- References
- Index
- Evil and human agency
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- A note on the cover image
- Introduction
- 1 The ordinariness of modern evildoers: a critique of Zygmunt Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust
- 2 Hannah Arendt on conscience and the ‘banality’ of evil
- 3 The psycho-logic of wanting to hurt others: An assessment of C. Fred Alford's work on evil
- 4 The logic and practice of collective evil: ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Bosnia
- 5 Responses to collective evil
- 6 A political postscript: globalization and the discontents of the self
- References
- Index
- Evil and human agency
- References
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- Evil and Human AgencyUnderstanding Collective Evildoing, pp. 299 - 309Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005