Confronting Evil: Two JourneysConfronting Evil describes Fred Emil Katz s two journeys in response to surviving the Holocaust. One journey is that of a survivor who tries to come to terms with his own survival, and who must cope with survival guilt as well as the sense of rootlessness that can go along with it. The other journey is that of a behavioral scientist who, after years of psychological denial, develops new ways of understanding and addressing genocide and other acts of social evil. |
Contents
More of the First Journey | 33 |
The Pain and Reward | 45 |
The Second Journey | 59 |
A Look at Implementation of the Holocaust | 87 |
The Routinization of Evil | 107 |
The Nazi Package as a Moral Mantle | 137 |
Cultures of Cruelty | 149 |
Endings and Beginnings | 177 |
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