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"Does the fetus know it is in its mother's womb? Probably not. Certainly not in any conscious way. Yet it is there, in the womb, asserting its existence. In that prepartum existence, the fetus is coping on its path to becoming a viable human being.

"Do we, postpartum humans, know that we live in some sort of external womb? Probably not. Yet we do live in the confines of an external womb. I'll call it social space. We may not be aware of it, but we live in, and through, and by the actions of social space."

The book examines four...

Confronting Evil describes Fred Emil Katz's two journeys in response to surviving the Holocaust. One journey is that of a survivor who tries to come to terms with his own survival, and who must cope with survival guilt as well as the sense of rootlessness that can go along with it. The other journey is that of a behavioral scientist who, after years of psychological denial, develops new ways of understanding and addressing genocide and other acts of social evil.

Explores a new paradigm for understanding social-psychological situations in which we live our lives. Along the way it illuminates the seductive appeal of cults and false messiahs, ways in which morality can be ennobling as well as deadly, the power of prayer, and the hidden side of personal careers.

What is it in the behavioral makeup of ordinary people, operating in the course of ordinary daily living, that lends itself to participating in horrendous activities -- and doing so at times with zeal, at times with joy, at times without duress? Katz demonstrates that we do not need any special behavioral equipment for doing evil. The very same behaviors can take us in both directions for either living humanely and decently or for doing evil. This book demonstrates how some of these processes work, and sensitizes us to the potential for evil in our ongoing daily activities. This knowledge...

Physicists talk about "the universe" as though they were the science masters of that domain. In the middle of the twentieth century physicists should have learned some humility from the discoveries made by genetic biologists, particularly their identification of the structure of DNA. These biologists explore a quite different universe from the one physicists explore. Physicists have studied just one kind of universe and its particular bag of tricks, and they have done so with very convincing success. In this book I address yet another universe: the universe of human existence in social space,...

Physicists talk about "the universe" as though they were the science masters of that domain. In the middle of the twentieth century physicists should have learned some humility from the discoveries made by genetic biologists, particularly their identification of the structure of DNA. These biologists explore a quite different universe from the one physicists explore. Physicists have studied just one kind of universe and its particular bag of tricks, and they have done so with very convincing success. In this book I address yet another universe: the universe of human existence in social space,...