Challenging Evil, Time Society and Changing Concepts of the Meaning of Evil

Front Cover......Page 2
Inside Cover......Page 3
Advisory Board......Page 4
ISBN......Page 6
Table of Contents......Page 7
Introduction......Page 11
PART 1: Contemporary Political and Legal Challenges of Evil......Page 17
Cruelty Well Used? Machiavelli and the Contemporary Debate over Torture......Page 19
Evil, Toxic and Pathological Categories of Leadership: Implications for Political Power......Page 27
Spreading the Word: Evangelism and the Posturing of Evil......Page 35
Shifting Political Discourses of Israeli Officials towards the Palestinian Authority within the Boundaries of Economy-Politics......Page 45
Criminal Legal Confrontation with Evil in Cases of Sexually Abused Children......Page 55
PART 2: Challenging Evil and Philosophy......Page 63
Aristotle's Conscious Evil Typology......Page 65
Evil, Freedom and the Heaven Dilemma......Page 73
PART 3: Literary Imaginations of Evil......Page 81
The Voice of the Devil: Milton, Blake and the Mediality of Evil......Page 83
The Concept of Evil in H.G. Wells' Novel The Island of Dr. Moreau......Page 91
An Archetypal Evil: A Passage to India......Page 99
From Oral Folk Tale Tradition to Fairy Tales and Their Representations in the Postmodern Novel: Once Upon a Time where Evil Resides......Page 107
Embracing the Unknowable: Suffering and Death in J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron......Page 115
Voldemort & Co.: Immortality and Immorality in the Harry Potter Series......Page 123
Confronting Evil in Harry Potter......Page 131
PART 4: Multimedia Forms of Evil......Page 139
Darkfic Slash: Are Evil Phantasies Dangerous?......Page 141
It's Hard to be Evil: Good, Evil and Moral Clarity in Videogames......Page 149
Ataman Struk Has His Photograph Taken: Testimony and Portaiture in the Russian Civil War Period......Page 157
PART 5:  Representations of Evil in Art/History......Page 165
Defining and Confronting Evil in the Sources of the Crusades......Page 167
Abu Ghraib Enhanced Interrogation: The Iconography of Evil......Page 175
Minimalism's Bose Orte......Page 183
PART 6: Evil and Curriculum......Page 191
Evil to the CORE:  Questions of Evil in an Interdisciplinary General Education Curriculum......Page 193
Understanding the Concept of Evil: An Emic and Multimodal Perspective......Page 201