Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil

by Margaret Sonser Breen (Editor)

Truth, Reconciliation, and Evil analyses evil in a variety of forms - as an unspeakable crime, a discursive or narrative force, a political byproduct, and an inevitable feature of warfare. The collection considers the forms of loss that the workings of evil exact, from the large-scale horror of genocide to the individual grief of a self-destructive homelessness. Finally, taken together, the fourteen essays that comprise this volume affirm that the undoing of evil - the moving beyond it through forgiveness and reconciliation - needs to occur within the context of community broadly defined, wherein individuals and groups can see beyond themselves and recognise in others a shared humanity and common cause.

272 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

Reviews

[Brad · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wrote one of the chapters in this book which is made up of selections from a 2002 conference on evil held in Prague. I was the only anthropologist there and enjoyed exploring the dark side in an interdisciplinary setting.