Tu non Uccidere. Umanità e Attualità del Male
Damiani
Edited by Canzoniero D. and Pelliccia C.
Bologna, 2008; clothbound, pp. 248, 100 col. ill., cm 24,5x28,5.
ISBN: 88-6208-044-1
- EAN13: 9788862080446
Subject: Historical Essays,Photography
Period: 1800-1960 (XIX-XX) Modern Period,1960- Contemporary Period
Places: No Place
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Weight: 1.5 kg
Tu non uccidere is a meditation on the sense of evil, on its ineluctable belonging to the nature of man inasmuch as he may lose or find himself in seeking a meaning for his own existence. Setting our from historical and literary testimony of 20th century genocides with the words of Amery, Solzhenitsyn and Levi and, passing by way of the stories of protagonists of evil - with Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot - to the "white collar criminals" with their "incredible banality", the book is an in-depth inquiry into the dark depths of the "human, all too human" fabric of the thoughts, acts and feelings that make up the experience of evil...
Texts by Franz Werfel, Gustav Herling, Zygmunt Bauman, Primo Levi, Ong Tong Hoeung, Jean Hatzfeld, Karl Jaspers, Gabriele Nissim, Armin Wegner, Imre Kertész and Erich Fromm...