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Evil : an investigation / Lance Morrow.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrow, Lance.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Good and evil.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 276 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2003]
- Summary:
- From award-winning essayist Morrow comes a provocative meditation on the nature of evil, and a daring analysis of its role in the modern world.
- Contents:
- The globalization of evil
- Humor's cousin
- A current through the world
- Why do they do it?
- The hermit's tale
- A catastrophic education
- The axis of wrong
- Sarajevo : lex talionis
- The rifleman's dilemma
- Jean Valjean at Wendy's
- Visigoths in the brain
- The axe in space
- What have children to do with it?
- The triumph of Goneril and Regan
- Tu quoque
- The rattlesnake in the mailbox
- Permissible evil
- Taking responsibility for the regime
- Office malignities
- The consolations of literature
- Us and them
- The face's secrects
- Club med for monsters
- Sade, Cobain, and the pleasures of evil
- Gormets and monkey brains
- The limits of silence
- The argument from design
- It is always a story
- The lessons of Mein Kampf
- What Nachtwey sees
- The quest for purity
- The foses lose heart
- Czerniakow's choice
- Hope.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0465047548
- OCLC:
- 52160053
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