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Keith D. Doubt - Understanding Evil - 9780823227006 - V9780823227006
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Understanding Evil

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Description for Understanding Evil Hardback. Seeks to articulate the evil that happened in Bosnia within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity. This book understands evil via a neologism - as sociocide, the murdering of society. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWYB; HPJ; JFFE; JWXK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 19. Weight in Grams: 366.

Understanding Evil seeks to articulate the evil that happened in Bosnia within the context of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Its analysis centers on the question of whether it is possible to understand evil as action. Since the foundations of the social are found in human action, evil's assault on these foundations results in the demise of the social. While evil simulates the outer form of action, ultimately evil belies itself as action. Can someone act with an evil end? Socrates says no, no one willingly does evil. Although, with a mixture of reason and empiricism, the author tries ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823227006
SKU
V9780823227006
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99-15

About Keith D. Doubt
Keith Doubt is Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wittenberg University. His books include Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections and Sociology after Bosnia, and Kosovo: Recovering Justice.

Reviews for Understanding Evil
"Doubt masterfully explicates the savage atrocities of the Bosnian war and uses those heinous deeds to construct a philosophy of evil uniquely suited for our time."
-Bob Donia coauthor of A Tradition Betrayed "[A] passionataely written book..."
-Asim Mujkic' University of Sarajevo "Doubt undertakes a bold and innovative sociological analysis of evil as actual social action. Invoking a ... Read more

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