Understanding evil : lessons from Bosnia / Keith Doubt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doubt, Keith.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice--Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Social justice.

War crimes--Bosnia and Hercegovina.

War crimes.

Crimes against humanity--Bosnia and Hercegovina.

Crimes against humanity.

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

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (152 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : 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, evilGs 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 GsociocidalG; they were systematic attacks on social life itself. The book develops the significance of GsociocideG as what evil is in order to understand the suffering and tragedy of the people and communities in Bosnia.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Witnessing Evil

1. Evil as Action

2. Evil' s Direction

3. Evil' s Reason

4. Evil' s Vanity

5. Rape as Evil

6. Evil' s Agency

7. Evil' s Disfigurement of Language

Part 2: Understanding Evil

8. Postmodernism' s Relation to Evil

9. Psychologizing Evil

10. Ritualizing Evil

11. Theorizing Evil with Socratic Naivete

12. Sociocide: A New Paradigm for Evil

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-3587-4

0-8232-2702-2

1-4294-7917-5

OCLC:

923763334