Evil in the Modern World: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030918903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 206 str.

Laura Dryjanska; Giorgio Pacifici

Opis

This interesting volume focuses on a set of phenomena which increasingly alarm the political world and public opinion: from the more obvious ones like torture, disease, human trafficking, abuse, genocide, displacement, to more subtle forms found in sports, technology and law. It looks at how and why these phenomena are universally condemned, and could be considered to threaten the very foundations of modern democracy; yet continue to be tolerated. The volume therefore goes beyond what Hannah Arendt has called the "banality of evil" and discusses the presence of condemned and heinous practices in society as fluid and chaotic but as non-trivial; capable of great transmutations through various epochs. Practices and actions considered as "evil" manifest in situations where individuals or groups hold power or seize power, and the contributions in this volume explore the close relation between power and evil. The volume draws upon sociology, psychology, cultural studies, political science, as well as philosophy, theology, anthropology, and neurology of the individual and of the group to provide a comprehensive understanding of the multiple facets of evil in the contemporary world. 

Spis treści

Foreword; Furio Colombo.- Introduction: Complex Trauma, Complex Evil; Laura Dryjanska, Giorgio Pacifici.- Evil and Pain: A Multi-Modal View to Approach Pain-Related Conditions; Maria Gabriella Buzzi, Adriano Purgato, Mariagrazia D'Ippolito.- Alzheimer's Disease, a Personal and Family Tragedy: The Absolute Evil; Marzia Giua, Roberto Giua.-Atonement, Evil, and Sexual Abuse; Adam Johnson.-The Evil of the Lack of Dignity: An Analysis of the Intercultural Homeomorphic Equivalence(s); Jacob Daniel.-Forced Migration, Modern Slavery, and the Evil of Shattered Dreams; Laura Dryjanska, Jamie N. Sanchez, Jacqueline Parke.-The Evil and the Systems of Law; Ugo Pacifici Noja.-Political Victimage Ritual and Evil; Michael Blain.-Neurocultural Identities and the Problem of Human Violence; Franco Fabbro, Alice Fabbro, Cristiano Cresentini.-"So-called Evil": Aggression in Competitive Sports in the Mirror of Social Expectations; Felix Lebed.-European Society, Evil, and Technologies; Giorgio Pacifici.-After the Bit Bang. The Evil in the Digital Universe; Pieraugusto Pozzi.-LIVE TO DO EVIL; Vittorio Pavoncello.-Afterword: The Obscure Component; Giorgio Pacifici, Laura Dryjanska.

O autorze

Laura Dryjanska is Associate Professor at Rosemead School of Psychology of Biola University in Southern California, and the Program Director of the Master of Science in Positive Organizational Psychology. She obtained a PhD in Social Representations and Communication in 2012 from Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). Laura was a scientific coordinator of the course in Organizational Psychology at Tuscia University in Italy in 2012, main lecturer in Organizational Psychology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland in 2016, and a Post-Doctoral fellow at Sapienza since 2013 until 2017. Born in Poland, she is a Polish and Italian citizen, fluent in five languages. Laura is a member of the American Psychological Association (and its various divisions, including the Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychology and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues), European Association of Social Psychology, and Rotary International.

Giorgio Pacifici is a sociologist and an essayist of European formation. His principal interest as a sociologist is the metamorphosis of European society in our era. He has been presided over non-profit institutions in cultural and technological fields. Currently, he is president of ARCO - Institute for Comparative and Interdisciplinary Research in Italy. He has been editor of more than 40 volumes and he published more than 100 book essays and journal articles. He has been a university professor and has done research in different countries in Europe, Latin America and Asia.