Ordinary People And Extraordinary Evil

Author : Fred Emil Katz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438408491

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Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil by Fred Emil Katz Pdf

What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities — and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge about ordinary behavior can empower us to take charge of our own direction, and help us turn away from beguilings of evil when they come our way.

Author : James Waller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190287528

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Becoming Evil by James Waller Pdf

Political or social groups wanting to commit mass murder on the basis of racial, ethnic or religious differences are never hindered by a lack of willing executioners. In Becoming Evil, social psychologist James Waller uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. Waller debunks the common explanations for genocide- group think, psychopathology, unique cultures- and offers a more sophisticated and comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity. He outlines the evolutionary forces that shape human nature, the individual dispositions that are more likely to engage in acts of evil, and the context of cruelty in which these extraordinary acts can emerge. Illustrative eyewitness accounts are presented at the end of each chapter. An important new look at how evil develops, Becoming Evil will help us understand such tragedies as the Holocaust and recent terrorist events. Waller argues that by becoming more aware of the things that lead to extraordinary evil, we will be less likely to be surprised by it and less likely to be unwitting accomplices through our passivity.

Author : Fred Emil Katz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791414426

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Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil by Fred Emil Katz Pdf

What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities — and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge about ordinary behavior can empower us to take charge of our own direction, and help us turn away from beguilings of evil when they come our way.

Author : Fred E. Katz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791414426

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Ordinary People and Extraordinary Evil by Fred E. Katz Pdf

Posits that our most ordinary behavior can lead us to participate in the most horrendous acts, perhaps even with zeal and joy, but certainly without remorse. Using the Holocaust as the pivotal example, examines the lives of the head of Auschwitz and a physician there, then the life of an exemplary physician to show the similarity; an American officer in Vietnam is also examined. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Dagmar Herzog
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810123717

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Lessons and Legacies VII by Dagmar Herzog Pdf

"In the courtroom and the classroom, in popular media, public policy, and scholarly pursuits, the Holocaust-its origins, its nature, and its implications-remains very much a matter of interest, debate, and controversy. Arriving at a time when a new generation must come to terms with the legacy of the Holocaust or forever lose the benefit of its historical, social, and moral lessons, this volume offers a richly varied, deeply informed perspective on the practice, interpretation, and direction of Holocaust research now and in the future. In their essays the authors-an international group including eminent senior scholars as well those who represent the future of the field-set the agenda for Holocaust studies in the coming years, even as they give readers the means for understanding today's news and views of the Holocaust, whether in court cases involving victims and perpetrators; international, national, and corporate developments; or fictional, documentary, and historical accounts. Several of the essays-such as one on nonarmed "amidah" or resistance and others on the role of gender in the behavior of perpetrators and victims-provide innovative and potentially significant interpretive frameworks for the field of Holocaust studies. Others; for instance, the rounding up of Jews in Italy, Nazi food policy in Eastern Europe, and Nazi anti-Jewish scholarship, emphasize the importance of new sources for reconstructing the historical record. Still others, including essays on the 1964 Frankfurt trial of Auschwitz guards and on the response of the Catholic Church to the question of German guilt, bring a new depth and sophistication to highly charged, sharply politicized topics. Together these essays will inform the future of the Holocaust in scholarly research and in popular understanding."--De l'éditeur.

Author : O. Jensen,C. Szejnmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230583566

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Ordinary People as Mass Murderers by O. Jensen,C. Szejnmann Pdf

Since the 1990s scholars have focused heavily on the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and have presented a complex and diverse picture of perpetrators. This book provides a unique overview of the current state of research on perpetrators. The overall focus is on the key question that it still disputed: How do ordinary people become mass murderers?

Author : Barbara Coloroso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Genocide
ISBN : 0670066044

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Extraordinary Evil by Barbara Coloroso Pdf

Author : Barbara Coloroso
Publisher : Nation Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070708899

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Extraordinary Evil by Barbara Coloroso Pdf

From best-selling author Barbara Coloroso comes a timely and essential book about genocide. Through an examination of three clearly defined genocides — the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, and the European Holocaust — Coloroso deconstructs the causes and consequences, both to its immediate victims and to the fabric of the world at large, and proposes the conditions that must exist in order to eradicate this evil from the world. Coloroso is well known for her best-selling books that explore why children bully. In Extraordinary Evil she builds upon that research to explain why the impulse to bully is mirrored by the act of genocide. By linking the psychology of the bully to the motivation that leads a community to murder, Coloroso provides devastating and vital insight into why people kill their neighbors. Based on the author's 15 years of research and extensive travel, Extraordinary Evil is an urgently needed work in an age when acts of genocide seem to occur more frequently and are in the public's consciousness more than ever before.

Author : Ron Franscell
Publisher : Fair Winds Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781610594943

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Delivered from Evil by Ron Franscell Pdf

A 12-year-old boy cowers in his closet while a lunatic killer slaughters his family . . . a nursing student unwittingly opens her home to the serial killer on her front porch . . . an 11-year-old girl drifts alone at sea on a flimsy cork raft for almost four days after a mass murderer kills her vacationing family aboard a chartered yacht . . . a brave firefighter suddenly finds himself in the crosshairs of a racist sniper almost nine stories above the ground . . . And, astonishingly, they all survived. From Howard Unruh’s 1949 shooting rampage through a quiet New Jersey neighborhood to Louisiana serial killer Derrick Todd Lee’s reign of terror in 2002, the corpses piled up and few lived to tell the horror. Now, award-winning journalist Ron Franscell explores the wounded hearts and minds of the ordinary people these monsters couldn’t kill. His mesmerizing accounts crackle with gritty details that put the reader in the midst of the carnage—and offer a front-row seat on the complex, painful process of surviving the rest of their haunted lives. In intimate, gripping prose, Franscell takes the reader on a pulse-pounding dash through the murky intersection of pure evil and the potency of the human spirit. This journey into the darkest corners of the American crime-scape is a penetrating work of literary journalism by a writer hailed as one of the most powerful new voices in true crime.

Author : Bob Dotson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101606155

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American Story by Bob Dotson Pdf

“These are remarkable and poignant stories that need to be told.” —Ken Burns More than six million people watch Bob Dotson’s Emmy award-winning segment, American Story, on NBC’s Today Show. For the last four decades, Dotson has traveled the country searching out inspiring individuals who quietly perform everyday miracles. In the process, he has become the treasured cartographer of America’s heart and soul. Today’s news is overwhelmingly grim; it’s also told by journalists who travel in herds as they trail politicians and camp out at big stories. In American Story, Dotson shines a light on America’s neglected corners, introducing readers to the ordinary Americans who have learned to fix what really matters.

Author : Elizabeth K. Minnich
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442275973

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The Evil of Banality by Elizabeth K. Minnich Pdf

Asking, How could they do it? about the many ordinary people who have been perpetrators and those who resist extensive evils—genocide, human trafficking, endemic sexualized violations of females, economic exploitation—the book delves into historic, contemporary, national, and international examples. The author, a moral philosopher, draws also on literature, psychology, economics, journalism, pop culture. Reversing Arendt’s banality of evil, she finds that mind-deadening banality, thoughtless conventionality, ambition, greed, status-seeking enable the evil of banality.

Author : K. Thalhammer,P. O'Loughlin,S. McFarland,M. Glazer,S. Shepela,N. Stoltzfus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230607460

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Courageous Resistance by K. Thalhammer,P. O'Loughlin,S. McFarland,M. Glazer,S. Shepela,N. Stoltzfus Pdf

During times of injustice, some individuals or groups courageously resist maltreatment of all people, regardless of backgrounds. Using various case studies, this book introduces readers to the broad spectrum of courageous resistance and provides a framework for analyzing the factors that motivate and sustain opposition to human rights violations.

Author : Christopher R. Browning
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062037756

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Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning Pdf

The shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews.

Author : Eyal Press
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429950084

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Beautiful Souls by Eyal Press Pdf

On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel's most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn't want to serve in the occupied territories. Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, Beautiful Souls explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention. Through the dramatic stories of unlikely resisters who feel the flicker of conscience when thrust into morally compromising situations, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but by true believers who cling with unusual fierceness to their convictions. Drawing on groundbreaking research by moral psychologists and neuroscientists, Beautiful Souls culminates with the story of a financial industry whistleblower who loses her job after refusing to sell a toxic product she rightly suspects is being misleadingly advertised. At a time of economic calamity and political unrest, this deeply reported work of narrative journalism examines the choices and dilemmas we all face when our principles collide with the loyalties we harbor and the duties we are expected to fulfill.

Author : Mindy Mejia
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501123429

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Everything You Want Me to Be by Mindy Mejia Pdf

"Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good girlfriend. When she's found brutally stabbed to death, the tragedy rips right through the fabric of her small-town community. Full of twists and turns, Everything You Want Me to Be reconstructs a year in the life of a dangerously mesmerizing young woman, during which a small town's darkest secrets come to the forefront, and she inches closer and closer to her death."--