| #2492703 in Books | Cornell University Press | 1997-09-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.20 x5.50l,.88 | File Name: 0801434300 | 200 pages |
||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Saying the Unspeakable|By G. Bestick|This book is a valuable contribution to a discussion we should never stop having: Why is there evil in the world, what causes it, and how can we prevent it? Evil is a topic we find easy to symbolize but difficult to categorize. Alford first attempts to define it by conducting interviews using a questionnaire he designed. One group of in|From Library Journal|Alford (government and politics, Univ. of Maryland, College Park) spent over a year interviewing state prison inmates, college students, and working people to find out how people conceptualize and experience evil. To many of his informants,
C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil―in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly seductive icons of evil...
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