Beautiful Souls Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times

Name: Beautiful Souls Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times
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ISBN: 9780374143428

ISBN-10: 0374143420

ISBN-13: 9780374143428

Edition: 2012

Authors: Eyal Press

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On the Swiss border with Austria in 1938, a police captain refuses to enforce a law barring Jewish refugees from entering his country. In the Balkans half a century later, a Serb from the war-blasted city of Vukovar defies his superiors in order to save the lives of Croats. At the height of the Second Intifada, a member of Israel’s most elite military unit informs his commander he doesn’t want to serve in the occupied territories.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…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 2/14/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English