Beautiful souls saying no, breaking ranks, and heeding the voice of conscience in dark times
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.
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 196 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780374143428 (alk. paper : hbk.) 0374143420 (alk. paper : hbk.) |
| Author Notes: | Eyal Press is an author and journalist based in New York. His work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Nation, The Raritan Review and numerous other publications. A 2011 Schwartz fellow at the New America Foundation, he is the author of Absolute Convictions, and a past recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism. |
