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Additional Edition: Print version: Butler matters : Judith Butler's impact on feminist and queer studies. London, [England] ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016, c2005 ISBN 9780754638858

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ISBN: 9789004433557 , 9789042019232

Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 19

Content: Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil analyses evil in a variety of forms-as an unspeakable crime, a discursive or narrative force, a political byproduct, and an inevitable feature of warfare. The collection considers the forms of loss that the workings of evil exact, from the large-scale horror of genocide to the individual grief of a self-destructive homelessness. Finally, taken together, the fourteen essays that comprise this volume affirm that the undoing of evil-the moving beyond it through forgiveness and reconciliation-needs to occur within the context of community broadly defined, wherein individuals and groups can see beyond themselves and recognise in others a shared humanity and common cause. Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil consists of expanded versions of papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in March 2003. The essays represent a variety of disciplinary approaches, including those of anthropology, linguistics, literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , Preface / , Keynote Address / , Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil in South Africa / , Language and Evil / , The Discourse of Good and Evil in Twentieth-Century Speeches / , Words Beyond (the) Evil: Nazi Gennan / , Jean Améry: Evil and the Language of Loss / , Where Evil Arises / , The Banality of Evil in an Age of Terrorism / , Evil Folklore: Practices of Prejudice / , Landmines: The Evil That Men Do? A Perspective on the History, Myths, and Reality Concerning the Problems of the Continuing Global Landmines Issue / , When Nature Responds to Evil Practices: A Warning from Ents of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth / , Evil, Monsters, and the Response to Evil / , The Evil That Men Do. / , Heroes and Monsters: The Politics of Survival in Spider-man and "A Long Line of Vendidas" / , Mad, Bad, or Difficult? Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret and the Enigma of Femininity / , Punishment, Mercy, and Forgiveness / , Punishing Evil: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Spectre of Prisoners in the Popular Imagination / , Forgiving the Unrepentant: Self-Respect and the Role of Third Parties / , Lawlessness in the Wake of Evil: Reprisal in The Mandarins / , Notes on Contributors / , Index /

Additional Edition: Print version: Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil, Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2004 ISBN 9789042019232

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ISBN: 9789401201506 , 9789042016781

Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 23

Content: 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, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.

Note: Preface -- Part I: Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing -- Frank FAULKNER and Graeme R. GOLDSWORTHY: No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century -- Mark BURGESS, Neil FERGUSON, and Ian HOLLYWOOD: A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action -- Haijing DAI: Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period -- Part II: Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People -- Samuel H. PILLSBURY: Speaking the Language of Evil -- Diana MEDLICOTT: The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are -- Wayne CRISTAUDO: Damage: A Logic of Evil -- Part III: Evil and the Arts -- Ted TURNAU: Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24 -- Vera B. PROFIT: The Devil's Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Der Verdacht -- Elizabeth MCCARTHY: The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist -- Part IV: Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities -- Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate -- Annette PANKRATZ: Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama -- Karen D. HOFFMAN: Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account -- Part V: Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions -- Gideon CALDER: Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders -- Stephen RILEY: Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice -- William Andrew MYERS: Individual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past -- Notes on Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Minding Evil : Explorations of Human Iniquity. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2005 ISBN 9789042016781

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ISBN: 9789401201001 , 9789042011380

Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 7

Content: Written across the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, sociology, and theology, the ten essays comprising the collection all insist on multidimensional definitions of evil. Taking its title from a moment in Shakespeare's Tempest when Prospero acknowledges his responsibility for Caliban, this collection explores the necessarily ambivalent relationship between humanity and evil. To what extent are a given society's definitions of evil self-serving? Which figures are marginalized in the process of identifying evil? How is humanity itself implicated in the production of evil? Is evil itself something fundamentally human? These questions, indicative of the kinds of issues raised in this collection, seem all the more pressing in light of recent world events. The ten essays were originally presented at the First Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2000 in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

Note: "The ten essay were originally presented at the First Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2000, in Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University"--Page 4 of cover. , Editorial foreword / , Preface / , Twentieth-century vampire literature: intimations of evil and power / , Evil encounters with "others" in Tayeb Salih and Toni Morrison: the case of Mustafa Saeed and Sula Peace / , A visual theology of evil and redemption? Watt's Eve trilogy and Burne-Jones's Altarpiece of the nativity / , Or image of that horror?: imagining radical evil / , Hier ist kein Warum?: evil at the limits of understanding / , Condemned to artifice and prevented from being a pirate: how prisoners convicted of terribel crimes recognize themselves in discourse / , The apostasy of the baptized: Christians and the Holocaust / , The exorcist: personification of human wickedness or upholder of religious duties? / , Wandering the heath: Niebuhr and the need for realism / , Prohibition and transgression: Georges Betaille and the possibility of affirming evil /

Additional Edition: Print version: This Thing of Darkness : Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2004 ISBN 9789042011380

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ISBN: 9789401201902 , 9789042017580

Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 26

Content: Genealogies of Identity examines issues of sex and sexuality across a range of critical and cultural perspectives. The volume considers historically specific discourses of sex and sexuality, their effect within public contexts such as the church and the workplace, and the link of those discourses to understandings of individual identity, citizenship, nation, and human rights. As well, the volume analyses representations of sexuality and desire in art, literature, theatre, and theory - representations that serve both to codify and to subvert social norms and aesthetic and theoretical traditions. Finally and more broadly, the volume attests to the critical importance of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding constructions of gender, sex, and sexuality. Genealogies of Identity consists of fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the First Global Conference on Critical Issues in Sexuality, held in Salzburg, Austria, in October 2004.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , List of Figures -- , Preface / , History, Sex, and Nation -- , Kertbeny's "Homosexuality" and the Language of Nationalism / , Prostitution, Sexuality, and Gender Roles in Imperial Germany: Hamburg, A Case Study / , Cultural Clash on Prostitution: Debates on Prostitution in Germany and Sweden in the 1990s / , "Staying Bush" - The Influence of Place and Isolation in the Decision by Gay Men to Live in Rural Areas in Australia / , Literature: Re-writing Desire -- , Whoring, Incest, Duplicity, or the "Self-Polluting" Erotics of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders / , Catastrophic Sexualities in Howard Baker's Theatre of Transgression / , Un-sacred Cows and Protean Beings: Suniti Namjoshi's Re-writing of Postcolonial Lesbian Bodies / , Desire-less-ness / , Bodies: Representations of Gender Identities -- , Underneath the Clothes - Transvestites without Vests: A Consideration in Art / , Of Swords and Rings: Genital Representation as Defining Sexual Identity and Sexual Liberation in Some Old French Fabliaux and Lais / , Only with You - Maybe - If You Make Me Happy: A Genealogy of Serial Monogamy as Governance Self-Governance / , Legality, Bureaucracy, Religion, and Sexuality -- , A Project for Sexual Rights: Sexuality, Power, and Human Rights / , International Law, Children's Rights, and Queer Youth / , Acting Like a Professional: Identity Dilemmas for Gay Men / , How Big is Your God? Queer Christian Social Movements / , Notes on Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Genealogies of Identity : Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality, Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2005 ISBN 9789042017580

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ISBN: 9789401200943 , 9789042009356

Series Statement: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; 2

Content: Written across the disciplines of law, literature, philosophy, and theology, Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach represents wide-ranging approaches to and understandings of "evil" and "wickedness." Consisting of three sections - " Grappling with Evil ", " Justice, Responsibility, and War " and " Blame, Murder, and Retributivism " -, all the essays are inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary in focus. Common themes emerge around the dominant narrative movements of grieving, loss, powerlessness, and retribution that have shaped so many political and cultural issues around the world since the fall of 2001. At the same time, the interdisciplinary nature of this collection, together with the divergent views of its chapters, reminds one that, in the end, an inquiry into "evil" and "wickedness" is at its best when it promotes intelligence and compassion, creativity and cooperation. The thirteen essays are originally presented at and then developed in light of dialogues held at the Third Global Conference on Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness, held in March 2002 in Prague.

Note: Introduction. -- PART I Grappling with Evil. -- Neil FORSYTH: Evil and Literature: Grandeur and Nothingness. Theodore SETO: Reframing Evil in Evolutionary and Game Theoretic Terms. Robert N. FISHER: The Catheter of Bilious Hatred. Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: Reading for Constructions of the Unspeakable in Kafka's Metamorphosis. -- PART II Justice, Responsibility and War. -- Peter DAY: Never Just, Always Evil: The View of Warfare in the Writings of the Ante-Nicene Fathers. Bill WRINGE: International Justice, Intervention, and the Prevention of Evil. Scott LOWE: Terrorism and Just War Theory. John T. PARRY: Collective and Individual Responsibility for Acts of Terrorism. -- PART III Blame, Murder, and Retributivism. -- Maria Michela MARZANO: Moral Responsibility, Liability, and Perversion: A New Understanding of Wickedness. John A. HUMBACH: The Humane Principle and the Biology of Blame (Evolutionary Origins of the Imperative to Inflict). Ramzi NASSER: Rescuing Kant's Retributivism. Jean MURLEY: Ordinary Sinners and Moral Aliens: The Murder Narratives of Charles Brockden Brown and Edgar Allan Poe. Karen-Margrethe SIMONSEN: Evilness and Law in Heinrich von Kleist's Story "Michael Kohlhaas". Notes Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Understanding Evil : An Interdisciplinary Approach. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2003 ISBN 9789042009356

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Format: xiii, 281 p.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 23

Note: Versions of these essays "were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004"--Pref.

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Format: xv, 266 p. : , ill.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 26

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ISBN: 94-012-0190-0 , 1-4237-8759-5

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 26

Content: Genealogies of Identity examines issues of sex and sexuality across a range of critical and cultural perspectives. The volume considers historically specific discourses of sex and sexuality, their effect within public contexts such as the church and the workplace, and the link of those discourses to understandings of individual identity, citizenship, nation, and human rights. As well, the volume analyses representations of sexuality and desire in art, literature, theatre, and theory - representations that serve both to codify and to subvert social norms and aesthetic and theoretical traditions. Finally and more broadly, the volume attests to the critical importance of inter- and multidisciplinary approaches to understanding constructions of gender, sex, and sexuality. Genealogies of Identity consists of fifteen essays, versions of which were presented at the First Global Conference on Critical Issues in Sexuality, held in Salzburg, Austria, in October 2004.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Preliminary Material -- , List of Figures -- , Preface / , History, Sex, and Nation -- , Kertbeny's "Homosexuality" and the Language of Nationalism / , Prostitution, Sexuality, and Gender Roles in Imperial Germany: Hamburg, A Case Study / , Cultural Clash on Prostitution: Debates on Prostitution in Germany and Sweden in the 1990's / , "Staying Bush" - The Influence of Place and Isolation in the Decision by Gay Men to Live in Rural Areas in Australia / , Literature: Re-writing Desire -- , Whoring, Incest, Duplicity, or the "Self-Polluting" Erotics of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders / , Catastrophic Sexualities in Howard Baker's Theatre of Transgression / , Un-sacred Cows and Protean Beings: Suniti Namjoshi's Re-writing of Postcolonial Lesbian Bodies / , Desire-less-ness / , Bodies: Representations of Gender Identities -- , Underneath the Clothes - Transvestites without Vests: A Consideration in Art / , Of Swords and Rings: Genital Representation as Defining Sexual Identity and Sexual Liberation in Some Old French Fabliaux and Lais / , Only with You - Maybe - If You Make Me Happy: A Genealogy of Serial Monogamy as Governance Self-Governance / , Legality, Bureaucracy, Religion, and Sexuality -- , A Project for Sexual Rights: Sexuality, Power, and Human Rights / , International Law, Children's Rights, and Queer Youth / , Acting Like a Professional: Identity Dilemmas for Gay Men / , How Big is Your God? Queer Christian Social Movements / , Notes on Contributors. , English

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ISBN: 94-012-0150-1 , 1-4237-8756-0

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 23

Content: 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, in learning to identify or recognise it, to try to understand its workings and thus contain or control it and, perhaps, repair or undo it. While the essays taken together work to show the difficulty and at times the travesty of not being able to distinguish between the two meanings, it is this second meaning that remains key. What are the individual and collective responsibilities entailed in minding - being troubled by - evil? This is the central question of this volume.

Note: Versions of these essays "were presented at the Fifth International Conference on Evil and Wickedness, held in Prague in 2004"--Pref. , Preface -- Part I: Groups, Activism, and the Tools of Ethnic Cleansing -- Frank FAULKNER and Graeme R. GOLDSWORTHY: No Place Like Home: The Role of Landmines in Ethnic Cleansing in the Twentieth Century -- Mark BURGESS, Neil FERGUSON, and Ian HOLLYWOOD: A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action -- Haijing DAI: Dichotomous Thinking and Culture of Destruction: Revisiting Youth Activism in China during the May Fourth Period -- Part II: Laws, Prisons, and Damaged People -- Samuel H. PILLSBURY: Speaking the Language of Evil -- Diana MEDLICOTT: The Unbearable Brutality of Being: Casual Cruelty in Prison and What This Tells Us About Who We Really Are -- Wayne CRISTAUDO: Damage: A Logic of Evil -- Part III: Evil and the Arts -- Ted TURNAU: Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick: Reflections on the Necessary Evils of 24 -- Vera B. PROFIT: The Devil's Footprints: The Case of Dr. Emmenberger in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Der Verdacht -- Elizabeth MCCARTHY: The Evil of Creation: The Destructive Aesthetic in the Figure of the Romantic Artist -- Part IV: Evil, Despair, and Distorted Realities -- Margaret SÖNSER BREEN: The Evils of [Same] Sex: The U.S. Gay Marriage Debate -- Annette PANKRATZ: Inside Out and Outside In: Constructions of Evil in Contemporary British Drama -- Karen D. HOFFMAN: Evil and Despairing Individuals: A Kierkegaardian Account -- Part V: Individuals, Groups, and Evil Actions -- Gideon CALDER: Relationality and Evil: Judging Bystanders -- Stephen RILEY: Harm and Transgression in International Criminal Justice -- William Andrew MYERS: Individual and Collective Responsibility for Wrongs of the Past -- Notes on Contributors. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-420-1678-7

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