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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Preface / Margaret Snser Breen -- Keynote Address / Margaret Snser Breen -- Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil in South Africa / David Schalkwyk -- Language and Evil / Margaret Snser Breen -- The Discourse of Good and Evil in Twentieth-Century Speeches / Encarnacion Hidalgo Tenorio -- Words Beyond (the) Evil: Nazi Gennan / Karin Doerr -- Jean Amry: Evil and the Language of Loss / Alan Udoff -- Where Evil Arises / Margaret Snser Breen -- The Banality of Evil in an Age of Terrorism / William Andrew Myers -- Evil Folklore: Practices of Prejudice / Brad Erickson -- Landmines: The Evil That Men Do? A Perspective on the History, Myths, and Reality Concerning the Problems of the Continuing Global Landmines Issue / Graeme R. Goldsworthy and Frank Faulkner -- When Nature Responds to Evil Practices: A Warning from Ents of J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-Earth / Margarita Carretero Gonzlez -- Evil, Monsters, and the Response to Evil / Margaret Snser Breen -- The Evil That Men Do. / Gloria Cigman -- Heroes and Monsters: The Politics of Survival in Spider-man and "A Long Line of Vendidas" / Margaret Snser Breen -- Mad, Bad, or Difficult? Mary Elizabeth Braddons Lady Audleys Secret and the Enigma of Femininity / Fiona Peters -- Punishment, Mercy, and Forgiveness / Margaret Snser Breen -- Punishing Evil: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Spectre of Prisoners in the Popular Imagination / Jody Lewen -- Forgiving the Unrepentant: Self-Respect and the Role of Third Parties / Shelby Weitzel -- Lawlessness in the Wake of Evil: Reprisal in The Mandarins / Dianne George -- Notes on Contributors / Margaret Snser Breen -- Index / Margaret Snser Breen.