Territories of evil / edited by Nancy Ballias.

• Superior document: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 45
• TeilnehmendeR: Billias, Nancy.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Evil is not only an abstract concept to be analyzed intellectually, but a concrete reality that we all experience and wrestle with on an ongoing basis. To truly understand evil we must always approach it from both angles: the intellective and the phenomenological. This same assertion resounds throug...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Nancy Billias
• Considering Evil / Nancy Billias
• The Devil You Think You Know: A Psychology of Evil / Christopher T. Burris and John K. Rempel
• How Civilians Became Targets: The Moral Catastrophe of “Collateral Damage” / William Andrew Myers
• Evil and the Loss of Intellect / Wayne Cristaudo
• Bonds of Authoritarianism and the Embodiment of Political Evil: An Interview with President Echeverría / Alejandro Cervantes-Carson
• Warfare, Pacifism, or Sabotage: Eastern Christian Responses to Political Aggression / Stephen Morris
• The Uncanny and the Feminine Sublime in Japanese Political Fantasy / Charles W. Nuckolls
• Demurring to Doom: The Geopolitics of Prevailing / Lee Quinby
• Post-modern Narratives of Evil and 9-11: The Case of Frédéric Beigbeder / Scott M. Powers
• You Are What You Eat: Cannibalism, Autophagy and the Case of Armin Meiwes / Roger Davis
• Adorno and the Guilt of Thinking / Anders Johansson
• As Others See Us: A Critical Reflection of the Role of Humanitarian Landmine Action Organisations / Graeme R. Goldsworthy
• ‘Paedophiles’ in Contemporary Culture / Sarah Dalal Goode
• Terrorism: Within and Without / Nancy Billias
• Born to be Bad or Born to Die? Evil and Finitude in Freud’s Death Drive / Havi Hannah Carel
• Notes on Contributors.