Minding evil : explorations of human iniquity /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 281 pages)
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 23
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 23.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11144109
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Other authors / contributors:Breen, Margaret Sönser.
ISBN:1423787560
9781423787563
9042016787
9789042016781
9789401201506
9401201501
Notes:Versions of these essays "were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
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Summary:Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity brings together fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004. The volume examines evil and wickedness from a variety of disciplines, including criminology, cultural studies, gender studies, law, literature, peace studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. In so doing Minding Evil keeps in play the doubled meaning of its title: on the one hand, to tend to evil, that is, to oversee, cultivate, and deploy it; on the other hand, to be bothered by evil and so, i.
Other form:Print version: Minding evil. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2005 9042016787