Truth, reconciliation, and evil / / 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 genocid...

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Superior document:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 19
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; Volume 19.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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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.