What Evil Means to Us / / C. Fred Alford.
C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil—in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on other...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- ONE. "I Felt Evil"
- TWO. Evil Is Pleasure in Hurting and Lack of Remorse
- THREE. The Ground of Evil Is Dread
- FOUR. Suffering Evil, Doing Evil
- FIVE. Identifying with Eichmann
- SIX. Splatter Movies or Shiva? A Culture of Vampires
- SEVEN "Evil Spelled Backward Is Live"
- EIGHT. Evil Is No-thing
- NINE. Scales of Evil
- Appendix 1. Asking about Evil
- Appendix 2. Informants and Questions
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index