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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1993.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 154 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781438408491
  • 1438408498
  • 9780791414422
  • 0791414426
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ordinary people and extraordinary evil.DDC classification:
  • 170 20
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .K38 1993
Other classification:
  • 71.60
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary. Evil Defined. Look at Evil Behaviorally. Is Evil Real? Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? Overview of the Book -- Ch. 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 -- Ch. 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work. Incremental Processes. Packages and Riders. The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens -- Ch. 3. Some Faces of Evil. A Humane American Physician. An SS Physician. A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. My Lai -- Ch. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index.

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Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary. Evil Defined. Look at Evil Behaviorally. Is Evil Real? Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? Overview of the Book -- Ch. 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 -- Ch. 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work. Incremental Processes. Packages and Riders. The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens -- Ch. 3. Some Faces of Evil. A Humane American Physician. An SS Physician. A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp. My Lai -- Ch. 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.

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