Ordinary people and extraordinary evil : a report on the beguilings of evil / Fred E. Katz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index.

Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary -- Evil Defined -- Look at Evil Behaviorally -- Is Evil Real? -- Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? -- Overview of the Book -- -- Chapter 1: Confronting Evil and its Paradoxes -- Arendt's View of Eichmann -- Is a Dispassionate Study of Evil Possible? -- The Desire to Ignore Evil -- People May Deliberately Engage in Evil Activities -- -- Chapter 2: Behavior Mechanisms at Work -- Incremental Processes -- Packages and Riders -- The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens -- -- Chapter 3: Some Faces of Evil -- A Humane American Physician -- An SS Physician -- A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp -- My Lai -- -- Chapter 4: Conclusion: Turning away from Evil -- A Fable About the Two Research-Minded Physicians -- Raoul Wallenberg and Rudolf Hoess Revisited -- The Compelling Power of Immediacy and Extricating Oneself from Taking Part in Evil -- Another Look at the Five Paradoxes: Some Answers, Some New Questions, Some Hope -- The Larger Picture.