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Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals): The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty - Hardcover

Buch 109 von 296: Psychology Revivals

Storr, Anthony

 
9780415832113: Human Destructiveness (Psychology Revivals): The Roots of Genocide and Human Cruelty
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 041583211X ISBN 13: 9780415832113
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

First published in 1972, this fully revised edition was originally published in 1991 and provides a classic study of humanity’s capacity for evil.

The human species is capable of the most appalling cruelty. Why is this and where does our capacity for such destructiveness come from? In Human Destructiveness, Anthony Storr explores these important questions.

In seeking to shed light on such brutal phenomena as genocide, racial conflict and other large-scale manifestations of violence, he cautions against easy extrapolations from individual behaviour to the behaviour of groups and nations, though he offers illuminating discussions of aggressive personality disorders, sadomasochism and the mechanisms of paranoid delusion. Most provocatively, he locates the propensity for mass outbreaks of cruelty in the imagination: ‘to be able to see fellow human beings as wholly evil requires an imaginative capacity not found in other species.’

Combining wide scholarship, humane intelligence and a graceful style, Human Destructiveness provides an illuminating study of some of the darkest corners of the human psyche.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Anthony Storr is one of Britain's foremost psychiatrists. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (F.R.C.P.). a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (F.R.C.Psych.), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (F.R.S.L.) and an Emeritus Fellow of Green College, Oxford. Among his many books are The Dynamics of Creation, Solitude and Churchill's Black Dog.

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Verlag
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
041583211X
ISBN 13 
9780415832113
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184
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