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

Eyal Press, Sean Runnette

eAudio - 2012

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 convention. Through the dramatic stories of unlikely re...sisters who feel the flicker of conscience when thrust into morally compromising situations, Eyal Press shows that the boldest acts of dissent are often carried out not by radicals seeking to overthrow the system but by true believers who cling with...

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Published
Tantor Media, Inc.
Language
English
Main Authors
Eyal Press, Sean Runnette
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size207 GB
Parts8
ISBN9781452628073
Release Date5/28/2012
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size207 GB
ISBN9781452628073
Release Date5/28/2012