Title:
Beautiful souls : saying no, breaking ranks, and heeding the voice of conscience in dark times
Author:
Press, Eyal.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012]
©2012
Physical Description:
196 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Language:
English
Contents:
Prologue -- Disobeying the law -- Defying the group -- The rules of conscience -- The price of raising one's voice -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
ISBN:
9780374143428
Format :
Book
