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Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour

JAMES E. WALLER REBECCA WITTMANN

The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, 2021, p.19

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Coming to Terms with the “Banality of Evil”: Implications of the Eichmann Trial for Social Scientific Research on Perpetrator Behaviour
Autor: JAMES E. WALLER
REBECCA WITTMANN
É parte de: The Eichmann Trial Reconsidered, 2021, p.19
Descrição: Social scientific research on perpetrator behaviour has consistently affirmed that the origins of extraordinary evil cannot be isolated in the extraordinary nature of the collective, the influence of an extraordinary ideology, psychopathology, or a common, homogeneous, extraordinary personality.¹ We are then left with the most discomforting of all realities – ordinary, “normal” people committing acts of extraordinary evil. The notion of the “ordinariness” of those who commit extraordinary evil was first given life in the early 1960s when a noted political philosopher posited an obedient, indifferent, and mundane personality to explain the atrocities of the Holocaust. The philosopher’s name is Hannah
Editor: University of Toronto Press
Idioma: Inglês

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