C. Fred Alford
Auteur van Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organizational Power
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C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. Recipient of 3 Fulbright Awards, he is author of over a dozen books on moral psychology, including After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Pruno Levi, and the Path to Affliction; toon meer Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation; and Rethinking Freedom. Alford was named the Chancellor Kirwin Undergraduate Teacher of the Year in 2009 by the University of Maryland, College Park. toon minder
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C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil--in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly seductive icons of evil, said he would "give anything to be a vampire." Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Alford argues that the primary experience of evil is not moral but existential. The problems of evil are complicated by the terror it evokes, a threat to the self so profound it tends to be isolated deep in the mind. Alford suggests an alternative to this bleak vision. The exercise of imagination--in particular, imagination that takes the form of a shared narrative--offers an active and practical alternative to the contemporary experience of evil. Our society suffers from a paucity of shared narratives and the creative imagination they inspire.… (meer)