Description: Acknowledgments Introduction: From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary Evil Defined Look at Evil Behaviorally Is Evil Real? Who Produces Extraordinary Evil? Overview of the Book 1. Confronting Evil and its Paradoxes Arendt's View of Eichmann Is a Dispassionate Study of Evil Possible? The Desire to Ignore Evil People May Deliberately Engage in Evil Activities 2. Behavior Mechanisms at Work Incremental Processes Packages and Riders The Question of Autonomy: The Cunning of Governments and the Contributions of Citizens 3. Some Faces of Evil A Humane American Physician An SS Physician A Nazi Bureaucrat: Chief of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp My Lai 4. Conclusion: Turning away from Evil A Fable About the Two Research-Minded Physicians Raoul Wallenberg and Rudolf Hoess Revisited The Compelling Power of Immediacy and Extricating Oneself from Taking Part in Evil Another Look at the Five Paradoxes: Some Answers, Some New Questions, Some Hope The Larger Picture Notes References Index

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