Description: What Evil Means to Us / C. Fred Alford. Ithaca : Cornell University Press ; 1997. xi, 185 pages ; 9.5 in. hardback with dust jacket. Condition is Like New. Ships by US Media Mail. Combined or expedited shipping available; DM seller with inquiries. "C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil—in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly seductive icons of evil, said he would 'give anything to be a vampire.' Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Alford argues that the primary experience of evil is not moral but existential. The problems of evil are complicated by the terror it evokes, a threat to the self so profound it tends to be isolated deep in the mind. Alford suggests an alternative to this bleak vision. The exercise of imagination—in particular, imagination that takes the form of a shared narrative—offers an active and practical alternative to the contemporary experience of evil. Our society suffers from a paucity of shared narratives and the creative imagination they inspire."
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Book Title: What Evil Means to US
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Original Language: English
Item Length: 23.5 cm
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Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 2 cm
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Features: Dust Jacket
Topic: History of Ideas, Movements / Psychoanalysis, History & Theory, Good & Evil, History, Psychology
Item Width: 16 cm
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Monograph
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Era: 1990s
LC Number: 97-10437
Author: C. Fred Alford
Genre: History, Philosophy, Psychology, Political Science
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 15.6 oz.
Number of Pages: xi, 185 pages
