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

The Papers Collected In This Volume Were First Presented At The 11th Global Conference Perspectives On Evil And Human Wickedness, Which Took Place In Salzburg (austria) In March 2010 And Is A Part Of The Research Network Inter-disciplinary.net. 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