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Preface and acknowledgements | p. xi |
List of acronyms and abbreviations | p. xviii |
The concept of evil | p. 1 |
Inexcusable wrongs | p. 3 |
The Atrocity Paradigm | p. 5 |
Demythologizing evil: Arendt, Milgram, and Zimbardo | p. 10 |
Overview of revisions | p. 16 |
Moral excuses | p. 18 |
Ordinary evils | p. 24 |
Institutional evil: the case of the death penalty | p. 27 |
Between good and evil | p. 36 |
Kant's theses on radical evil | p. 37 |
Kant's moral excluded middle | p. 40 |
Evils vs. lesser wrongs | p. 46 |
Two ways to lack unity in the will | p. 50 |
Gray zones | p. 56 |
Diabolical evil revisited | p. 57 |
Complicity in structural evils | p. 62 |
Collectively perpetrated evils | p. 62 |
Institutions and social structure | p. 68 |
Oppression | p. 71 |
Structural groups | p. 76 |
Complicity in evil practices | p. 82 |
To whom (or to what) can evils be done? | p. 88 |
Contexts and problematic cases | p. 88 |
Harm and well-being | p. 95 |
What makes harm intolerable? | p. 100 |
Degradation and the capacity approach to harm | p. 103 |
Trees as victims | p. 106 |
The ôlivesö of ecosystems, species, and Gaia | p. 110 |
Harm to human groups | p. 114 |
Concluding questions | p. 117 |
Terrorism, torture, genocide | p. 121 |
Counterterrorism | p. 123 |
Hobbesian and Kantian approaches | p. 125 |
International rules of war vs. subjective improvisations of terrorism | p. 136 |
The military model of countetterrorism | p. 138 |
An analogy with private counterterrorisms | p. 141 |
Justice for the unjust | p. 145 |
Low-profile terrorism | p. 149 |
Two models of terrorism | p. 151 |
War on terrorism and the group target model | p. 157 |
Rape terrorism | p. 159 |
Beyond the two models | p. 162 |
How terrorism works | p. 166 |
Conscientious torture? | p. 173 |
The revived torture debates | p. 176 |
The misnamed ôone-offö case | p. 183 |
Dershowitz, the ticking bomb, and torture warrants | p. 186 |
The failures of excuses for conscientious torture | p. 193 |
Ordinary torture | p. 205 |
The experience of Jean Améry | p. 208 |
The UN definition | p. 210 |
Applying the UN definition to the ôcleanö techniques | p. 213 |
Five kinds of ordinary, mostly civilian, torture | p. 224 |
What Bentham's definition misses | p. 234 |
Genocide is social death | p. 237 |
Prologue | p. 237 |
The concept of genocide and philosophical reflection on genocide | p. 241 |
The murder of groups | p. 246 |
The UN definition of ôgenocideö | p. 255 |
The specific evil of genocide | p. 261 |
Genocide by forced impregnation | p. 267 |
A paradox | p. 267 |
The Brana plan for ethnic cleansing | p. 268 |
How can expulsion and mass rape aimed at expulsion be genocidal? | p. 272 |
ôIn whole or in partö | p. 276 |
Hate crimes and assimilations | p. 280 |
The ôlogical glitchö | p. 283 |
Sperm as a biological weapon | p. 287 |
Bibliography | p. 294 |
List of films referred to | p. 312 |
List of websites for international documents | p. 314 |
Index | p. 316 |
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