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Overview
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010
- Contents
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Preface / Nancy Billias
Little white lies : 9/11 and the recasting of evil through metaphor / Phil Fitzsimmons
The phenomenology of domestic violence : an insider's look / Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz and Eli Buchbinder
Side effects of the linguistic construction of others' wickedness / Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio
Falling under an evil influence / Jeffrey Wallen
The banality of violence : from Kafka's The castle to Auster's The music of chance / Ilana Shiloh
Deconstructing masculine evil in Angela Carter's The bloody chamber stories / Aytül Özüm
Sacred and (sub )human pain : witnessing bodies in early modem hagiography and contemporary spectatorship of atrocity / Sophie Oliver
Overturning Adorno : poetry as a rational response to evil / Nancy Billias
Twelve pages of madness : developments in cinema's narration of insanity / Peter Remington
'Based on the true story' : cinema's mythologised vision of the Rwandan genocide / Ann-Marie Cook
'We have no trouble here' : considering Nazi motifs in The sound of music and Cabaret / David E. Isaacs
Sympathy for the devil : the hero is a terrorist in V for Vendetta / Margarita Carretero-González
'Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good' : the theology of evil in Man on fire / Paul Davies
Remediation, analogue corruption, and the signification of evil in digital games / Ewan Kirkland
Akhenaten, 'the Damned One' : monotheism as the root of all evil / Robert W. Butler
Are witches good - and devils evil? Some remarks on the conception of evil in the works of Paracelsus / Peter Mario Kreuter
Can I play with madness? The psychopathy of evil, leadership, and political mis-management / Frank J. Faulkner
The rhetoric of evil : how failure is turned to one's own advantage / Joshua Mills-Knutsen . - Notes
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Papers from the eighth conference of Global perspectives on evil and human wickedness, Salzburg, March 2007; and from the conference Cultures of violence, Oxford, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Nancy Billias -- Little white lies : 9/11 and the recasting of evil through metaphor / Phil Fitzsimmons -- The phenomenology of domestic violence : an insider's look / Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz and Eli Buchbinder -- Side effects of the linguistic construction of others' wickedness / Encarnación Hidalgo Tenorio -- Falling under an evil influence / Jeffrey Wallen -- The banality of violence : from Kafka's The castle to Auster's The music of chance / Ilana Shiloh -- Deconstructing masculine evil in Angela Carter's The bloody chamber stories / Aytül Özüm -- Sacred and (sub )human pain : witnessing bodies in early modem hagiography and contemporary spectatorship of atrocity / Sophie Oliver -- Overturning Adorno : poetry as a rational response to evil / Nancy Billias -- Twelve pages of madness : developments in cinema's narration of insanity / Peter Remington -- 'Based on the true story' : cinema's mythologised vision of the Rwandan genocide / Ann-Marie Cook -- 'We have no trouble here' : considering Nazi motifs in The sound of music and Cabaret / David E. Isaacs -- Sympathy for the devil : the hero is a terrorist in V for Vendetta / Margarita Carretero-González -- 'Be not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good' : the theology of evil in Man on fire / Paul Davies -- Remediation, analogue corruption, and the signification of evil in digital games / Ewan Kirkland -- Akhenaten, 'the Damned One' : monotheism as the root of all evil / Robert W. Butler -- Are witches good - and devils evil? Some remarks on the conception of evil in the works of Paracelsus / Peter Mario Kreuter -- Can I play with madness? The psychopathy of evil, leadership, and political mis-management / Frank J. Faulkner -- The rhetoric of evil : how failure is turned to one's own advantage / Joshua Mills-Knutsen .
Physical Details
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- English
- ISBN
- 9789042029392
9042029390 - Physical Description
- xix, 308 pages ; 22 cm
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