Understanding evil : lessons from Bosnia / Keith Doubt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doubt, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Social justice.

Bosnia and Herzegovina.

War crimes--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

War crimes.

Crimes against humanity--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Crimes against humanity.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Atrocities--Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

152 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2006.

Summary:

In Understanding Evil, Keith Doubt uses the horrors of the recent war in Bosnia to develop meaningfully adequate accounts of evil within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Since the foundations of the social are found in human action, evil's assault on these foundations results in the demise of the social. In Bosnia, not only were individuals, families, homes, and buildings destroyed, but entire towns and cities were obliterated. Not only were individual human beings murdered, but so was the history and memory of vibrant communities. Crimes against humanity in Bosnia, Doubt argues, were ?sociocidal?; they were systematic attacks on social life itself. The book develops the significance of ?sociocide? as what evil is in order to understand the suffering and tragedy of the people and communities in Bosnia.

Contents:

Part 1: Witnessing evil

Sea / by Mak Dizdar

Evil as action

Evil's direction

Evil's reason

Evil's vanity

Rape as evil

Evil's agency

Evil's disfigurement of language

Part I2: Understanding evil

Paths / by Mak Dizdar

Postmodernism's relation to evil

Psychologizing evil

Ritualizing evil

Theorizing evil with socratic naiveté

Sociocide : a new paradigm for evil

Lillies / by Mak Dizdar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [139]-146) and index.

ISBN:

9780823227006

OCLC:

72161790

Publisher Number:

9780823227006