01918cam a22001937i 4500008004100000020001800041040000800059050002200067245005200089300001100141490005300152505001700205518001500222520141400237650001801651650001901669650001601688700002001704210809s2008    ne       b    100 0 eng d  a9789042023697  aSDU00aBJ1401bT326 200800aTerritories of evil /cedited by Nancy Ballias.  a252 p.1 aAt the interface/probing the boundaries ;vv. 45  aHKBU library  aYT2025 M101 a"Evil is not only an abstract concept to be analyzed intellectually, but a concrete reality that we all experience and wrestle with on an ongoing basis. To truly understand evil we must always approach it from both angles: the intellective and the phenomenological. This same assertion resounds through each of the papers in this volume, in which an interdisciplinary and international group (including nurses, psychologists, philosophers, professors of literature, history, computer studies, and all sorts of social science) presented papers on cannibalism, the Holocaust, terrorism, physical and emotional abuse, virtual and actual violence, and depravity in a variety of media, from film to literature to anime to the Internet. Conference participants discussed villains and victims, dictators and anti-heroes, from 921 A.D. to the present, and considered the future of evil from a number of theoretical perspectives. Personal encounters with evil were described and analyzed, from interviews with political leaders to the problems of locating and destroying land mines in previous war zones.The theme of responsibility and thinking for the future is very much at the heart of these papers: how to approach evil as a question to be explored, critiqued, interrogated, reflected upon, owned. The authors urge an attitude of openness to new interpretations, new perspectives, new understanding."--BOOK JACKET. 0aGood and evil 7aGood and evil.07aDas Böse.1 aBillias, Nancy.