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Evil and Human Agency

Understanding Collective Evildoing

  • Paperback
  • 328 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.1 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For readers interested in philosophy and ethics

Clarifies the complexities of collective evildoing

You will gain insight into human behaviour and morality

This thought-provoking book explores the nature of evil and human agency.

Evil is a poorly understood phenomenon. In this provocative 2005 book, 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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  • Title

    Evil and Human Agency

  • Author

    Arne Johan Vetlesen

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    December 2005

  • Weight

    486g

  • Page Count

    328

  • Dimensions

    15.1 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521673570

  • ISBN-10

    0521673577

  • Eden Code

    4575355

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