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Cruelty
Human evil and the human brain
Kathleen Taylor
360 pages
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15 halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-955262-7
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Hardback
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26 February 2009
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- Brings together insights from modern psychology, neuroscience, and other fields to analyse a topic rarely explored
- Of wide interest, cutting across science and humanities, with examples from history and the arts
- Will be of interest also to academics in sociology, psychology, and related fields
- Emotionally charged subject explored without sensationalism, but with sensitivity
In this thoughtful exploration of a painful subject, Kathleen Taylor seeks to bring together the fruits of work in psychology, sociology, and her own field of neuroscience to shed light on the nature of cruelty and what makes human beings cruel. The question of cruelty is inevitably tied to questions of moral philosophy, the nature of evil, free will and responsibility. Taylor's approach is ambitious, but little work has been done in this area and this wide-ranging discussion, considering the roles of emotion, belief, identity and 'otherizing'; evolved instincts and differences in brains; callousness and sadism; seeks to begin to identify how we might reduce or limit cruelty in our societies by a greater understanding of its causes, and the circumstances
in which it can grow.
As with her highly regarded previous book, Brainwashing, Taylor draws in examples from history and literature in her study, making this a rich and multifaceted analysis that should be of interest to a wide readership, and provoke much thought, debate, and further research.Readership: Anyone with an interest in the origins of cruelty and its biological and psychological basis - from non-specialist readers of popular science, with an interest in psychology and the brain, to people with an interest in moral philosophy, to psychologists, social scientists, and biologists.
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"Both lay readers and academics from a variety of disciplines will find 'Cruelty' an absorbing and thought-provoking work." - Sue McHale, Times Higher Education Supplement "A copy should be given to every politician elected to Parliment." - Sue McHale, Times Higher Education Supplement "[A] wise and timely book." - Steven Rose, The Guardian
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Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction - Cruelty in Context
1: What is cruelty?
2: Quis judicat? Who decides?
3: Why does cruelty exist?
4: How do we come to act?
5: How do we come to feel?
6: How do we come to believe?
7: Why are we callous?
8: Why does sadism exist?
9: Can we stop being cruel?
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