Truth, reconciliation, and evil / / edited by Margaret Sonser Breen.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Breen, Margaret Sönser,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Preface /; Keynote Address /; Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil in South Africa /; Language and Evil /; The Discourse of Good and Evil in Twentieth-Century Speeches /; Words Beyond (the) Evil: Nazi Gennan /; Jean Amry: Evil and the Language of Loss /; Where Evil Arises /; The Banality of Evil in an Age of Terrorism /; Evil Folklore: Practices of Prejudice /; Landmines: The Evil That Men Do? A Perspective on the History, Myths, and Reality Concerning the Problems of the Continuing Global Landmines Issue /; When Nature Responds to Evil Practices: A Warning from Ents of J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-Earth /; Evil, Monsters, and the Response to Evil /; The Evil That Men Do. /; Heroes and Monsters: The Politics of Survival in Spider-man and "A Long Line of Vendidas" /; Mad, Bad, or Difficult? Mary Elizabeth Braddons Lady Audleys Secret and the Enigma of Femininity /; Punishment, Mercy, and Forgiveness /; Punishing Evil: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Spectre of Prisoners in the Popular Imagination /; Forgiving the Unrepentant: Self-Respect and the Role of Third Parties /; Lawlessness in the Wake of Evil: Reprisal in The Mandarins /; Notes on Contributors /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004433554
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Margaret Sonser Breen.

Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil analyses evil in a variety of formsas an unspeakable crime, a discursive or narrative force, a political byproduct, and an inevitable feature of warfare. The collection considers the forms of loss that the workings of evil exact, from the large-scale horror of genocide to the individual grief of a self-destructive homelessness. Finally, taken together, the fourteen essays that comprise this volume affirm that the undoing of evilthe moving beyond it through forgiveness and reconciliationneeds to occur within the context of community broadly defined, wherein individuals and groups can see beyond themselves and recognise in others a shared humanity and common cause. Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil consists of expanded versions of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in March 2003. The essays represent a variety of disciplinary approaches, including those of anthropology, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.