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Mass Violence and the Continuum of Destruction: A study of C. P. Taylor’s >Good<

  • There are important studies that have directly focused on how, in times of conflict, it is possible for previously law abiding people to commit the most atrocious acts of cruelty and violence. The work of Erich Fromm (>Escape from Freedom<), Hannah Arendt (>Eichmann in Jerusalem<), Zygmunt Bauman (>Modernity and the Holocaust<) and Ernest Becker (>Escape from Evil<) have all contemplated the driving force of aggression and mass violence to further our understanding of how people are capable of engaging in extreme forms of cruelty and violence. This paper specifically addresses these issues by focusing on C. P. Taylor’s play >Good<. This provocative play examines how a seemingly >good< and intelligent university professor can gradually become caught up in the workings of the Third Reich. Taylor highlights the importance of appreciating how people can be steadily incorporated into an ideologically destructive system. I argue that the theatre is a powerful medium to explore these complex issues. The audience of >Good< find themselves confronted with the following question – >What would you have done?<

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Author:James Hardie-Bick
Parent Title (English):International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2020), pp. 477-495. [ISSN 1572-8722] [doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09718-5]
Document Type:Articles
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2020
Release Date:2024/04/04
Format:to purchase via publisher
IdNo:Hardie-Bick_J_2020
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
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