TY - BOOK ID - 103785677 TI - Perspectives on evil : from banality to genocide PY - 2019 SN - 9004409262 9004365826 9789004365827 9789004409262 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, DB - UniCat KW - Good and evil KW - Human behavior - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Genocide - Rwanda KW - Capitalism - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Imprisonment - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Ethical problems KW - Good and evil. KW - Evil KW - Wickedness KW - Ethics KW - Philosophy KW - Polarity KW - Religious thought KW - Human behavior KW - Genocide KW - Capitalism KW - Imprisonment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103785677 AB - The question of evil is one of the oldest and most intensely studied topics in intellectual history. In fiction, legend and mythology the boundary between good and evil is often depicted as clear-cut, at least to the reader or listener, who is supposed to understand such tales as lessons and warnings. Evil is something that must be avoided by the hero in some cases and vanquished in others; it is either the exact opposite of the expected good behaviour, or its complete absence. Even so, for the characters in these didactic fictions, it turns out to be deceptively easy to fall to the infernal, ‘dark’ side. This volume draws on the expertise of an interdisciplinary group of contributors to chart events and deeds of an ‘evil’ nature that have been lived in the (recent) past and have become part of history, from individual to institutionalised evil. ER -