Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, "Beautiful Souls" explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention.
Record details
ISBN:9780374143428 (hc.)
ISBN:0374143420 (hc.)
Physical Description:print 196 p. ; 22 cm.
Edition:1st ed.
Publisher:New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-193).
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue -- Disobeying the law -- Defying the group -- The rules of conscience -- The price of raising one's voice -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
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