具体描述
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all now evil when we encounter it - in the villains of history like Hitler and Stalin, in the routine brutality that makes the nightly news, in the hateful violence of terrorists, and sociopaths - but the phenomenon of evil has long resisted explanation. In this singular survey of this mysterious but all-too-often palpable force, veteran Time magazine essayist Lance Morrow offers a sustained look at the unmistakable ways evil manifests itself in history and in the human heart. This is a provocative meditation on the role evil plays in shaping human history, a timely analysis of how this primitive force can be understood in a modern world of high-tech, sensationalized brutality, and a daring exploration of why evil may be necessary in the world.
作者简介
Lance Morrow has won two National Magazine Awards, written more than 150 Time cover stories, and has contributed to publications such as Harper's, Civilization, The Conde Nast Traveler, and National Geographic Traveler. Morrow is a University Professor at Boston University, and is the author of several books, including Heart: A Memoir, The Chief: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons, and Fishing in the Tiber. He lives in Chatham, NY.
目录信息
2 Humor's Cousin
3 A current Through the World
4 Why Do They Do It?
5 The Hermit's Tale
6 A Catastrophic Education
7 The Axis of Wrong
8 Sarajevo: Lex Talionis
9 The Rifleman's Dilemma
10 Jean Valjean at Wendy's
11 Visigoths in the Brain
12 The Axe in Space
13 What Have Children to Do with It?
14 The Triumph of Goneril and Regan
15 Tu Quoque
16 The Rattlesnake in the Mailbox
17 Permissble Evil
18 Taking Responsibility for the Regime
19 Office Malignities
20 The Consolations of Literature
21 Us and Them
22 The Face's Secrets
23 Club Med for Monsters
24 Sade, Cobain, and the Pleasures of Evil
25 Gourmets and Monkey Brains
26 The Limits of Silence
27 The Argument from Design
28 It Is Always a Story
29 The Lessons of Mein Kampf
30 What Nachtwey Sees
31 The Quest for Purity
32 The Foxes Lose Heart
33 Czerniakow's Choice
34 Hope
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what is true evil?
what is true evil?
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what is true evil?
what is true evil?