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ISBN: 9780307271853

Book Title: Political Evil : What It Is and How to Combat It

Item Length: 9.6in

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication Year: 2011

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 1.3in

Author: Alan Wolfe

Genre: History, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science

Topic: Terrorism, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Genocide & War Crimes, Political, Violence in Society, Good & Evil, World

Item Width: 6.6in

Item Weight: 21.6 Oz

Number of Pages: 352 Pages

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A timely, eye-opening examination of political evil, a concept widely misunderstood and desperately in need of clarification in our ever more chaotic world. In an age of genocide, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and torture, evil threatens us in ways radically different from tsunamis and financial panics. Nature unleashes its wrath and people rush to help the victims. Evil shows its face and we are paralyzed over how to respond. It was not always this way. During the twentieth century, thinkers as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell made evil central to everything they wrote. Acclaimed political scientist Alan Wolfe argues that in an age of partisan blame-assigning, therapeutic excuse-making, and theological question-dodging, we need to get serious about the problem of evil once again. While there will always be something incomprehensible about evil, we are very much capable of understanding and combating the use of evil means to obtain political ends. Diplomats and politicians with their own agendas ignore this side of evil to grim and often tragic effect. These movers and shakers apply the concept of general evil, seemingly inconquerable, inviting only violence and despair to situations that are local in nature. Looking at examples of political evil around the globe-in the Middle East, Darfur, the Balkans, and at home in the West-Wolfe shows us how seemingly small distinctions can make an immense difference in international response. And he makes clear that much-needed change can be initiated with a shift in how we talk and think about political evil. International shame in the years following the Rwandan genocide-after the world failed to recognize it as such-led to a large-scale campaign against genocide in Darfur. Except, Wolfe argues, in Darfur it wasn't genocide: it was civil war. We see-surprisingly, and powerfully-that labeling the conflict incorrectly had disastrous effects, even extending the violence as soldiers waited for seemingly inevitable Western intervention. When, on the other hand, Western leaders compared Serbian president and infamous ethnic cleanser Slobodan Milosevic to Hitler, they failed to recognize that exterminating people and seeking to take over their land are both evil but they are evil in different ways; misguided Western intervention in the Balkans eventually brought ethnic cleansing to an end, but only by allowing it to run its course. At once impassioned and pragmatic, Political Evil sheds essential light on the creation of policy and on a concrete path to a more practicable and just future.

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Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-10

0307271854

ISBN-13

9780307271853

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102820234

Product Key Features

Book Title

Political Evil : What It Is and How to Combat It

Author

Alan Wolfe

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Topic

Terrorism, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Genocide & War Crimes, Political, Violence in Society, Good & Evil, World

Publication Year

2011

Genre

History, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science

Number of Pages

352 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

9.6in

Item Height

1.3in

Item Width

6.6in

Item Weight

21.6 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Ja79.W65 2011

Reviews

"Intelligent and often brave . . . Audacious . . . Important . . . Whatever you label Wolfe's argument in Political Evil, it is timely, valuable and refreshingly adult." -Jonathan Rauch, The New York Times Book Review "[Wolfe's] sentiments . . . seem both admirable and true." -Michael Ignatieff, Slate "This book has many virtues. Wolfe has done us a service in reminding us that human beings should be sensitive to their own fallibility, and to the dangers of a hubristic mustering of overwhelming force . . . Political Evil represents the reflections of an intelligent, humane and learned scholar who has many important things to say to policy makers in a world that is dangerous and sadly in need of tempering voices." -Robert Swan, Washington Independent Review of Books "A revelatory work: full of terrific analysis, and, a word I hesitate to use, wisdom. So many illuminations about so many murky matters. Really wonderful." -C.K. Williams, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry "In this impassioned and thought-provoking journey through the varied landscape of political evil, Alan Wolfe draws subtle and often heartbreaking distinctions examining what can-and cannot-be done to combat the most vile organized horrors that human beings have always inflicted upon one another. This is a necessary but disturbing book, because it is all about the heart of darkness that is so much more comfortable to ignore-and our own limitations even when we try to do the right thing." -Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason "In the face of mass violence, terrorism, and genocide around the globe, democratic citizens risk inaction and also excessive reaction. Are there alternatives to letting evil continue and producing more violence and inevitable victimization of innocents? Alan Wolfe's clear-eyed analysis offers vital tools to advance effective responses. He calls for joining unblinking condemnation of large-scale horrors with precise attention to their particular roots. His warnings against sweeping generalizations and faulty analogies to the past are grounded in detailed studies of mass violence in Darfur, the US 'war against terror,' and other current events. For serious alternatives to overreaction and inaction in the face of political evil, read Alan Wolfe." -Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness "Despite the persistence of evil, Wolfe is hopeful that we can stop evil acts, and despite his clear appeal to reason, his arguments are quite passionate." -Booklist "A balanced inquiry into the violent world confronting America today." -Publishers Weekly, "Intelligent and often brave . . . Audacious . . . Important . . . Whatever you label Wolfe's argument in Political Evil, it is timely, valuable and refreshingly adult." -Jonathan Rauch, The New York Times Book Review "In Political Evil, Alan Wolfe issues a compelling summons to moral and intellectual seriousness and conducts a multi-pronged and . . . soberly argued inquiry into the contemporary forms of political evil and the proper means for combating them." -Peter Berkowitz, The Wall Street Journal "[Wolfe's] sentiments . . . seem both admirable and true." -Michael Ignatieff, Slate "Ambitious and important." -Charles R. Morris, Commonweal "This book has many virtues. Wolfe has done us a service in reminding us that human beings should be sensitive to their own fallibility, and to the dangers of a hubristic mustering of overwhelming force . . . Political Evil represents the reflections of an intelligent, humane and learned scholar who has many important things to say to policy makers in a world that is dangerous and sadly in need of tempering voices." -Robert Swan, Washington Independent Review of Books "A revelatory work: full of terrific analysis, and, a word I hesitate to use, wisdom. So many illuminations about so many murky matters. Really wonderful." -C.K. Williams, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry "In this impassioned and thought-provoking journey through the varied landscape of political evil, Alan Wolfe draws subtle and often heartbreaking distinctions examining what can-and cannot-be done to combat the most vile organized horrors that human beings have always inflicted upon one another. This is a necessary but disturbing book, because it is all about the heart of darkness that is so much more comfortable to ignore-and our own limitations even when we try to do the right thing." -Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason "In the face of mass violence, terrorism, and genocide around the globe, democratic citizens risk inaction and also excessive reaction. Are there alternatives to letting evil continue and producing more violence and inevitable victimization of innocents? Alan Wolfe''s clear-eyed analysis offers vital tools to advance effective responses. He calls for joining unblinking condemnation of large-scale horrors with precise attention to their particular roots. His warnings against sweeping generalizations and faulty analogies to the past are grounded in detailed studies of mass violence in Darfur, the US 'war against terror,' and other current events. For serious alternatives to overreaction and inaction in the face of political evil, read Alan Wolfe." -Martha Minow, author of Between Vengeance and Forgiveness "Despite the persistence of evil, Wolfe is hopeful that we can stop evil acts, and despite his clear appeal to reason, his arguments are quite passionate." -Booklist "A balanced inquiry into the violent world confronting America today." -Publishers Weekly

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2011-003409

Dewey Decimal

320.01

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