Michael Reid Trice, Encountering Cruelty: The Fracture of the Human Heart (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011)
As many violence scholars, I have not found myself to be greatly interested in cruelty, for the simple reason that instances of cruelty are relatively rare, if we accept its usual definition as “willful indifference to suffering, or taking pleasure in inflicting such suffering upon sentient beings.”...
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The University of Akureyri
2012-03-01
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| Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Online Access: | http://nome.unak.is/nm-marzo-2012/vol-7-n-1-2012/37-book-review/113-michael-reid-trice-qencountering-cruelty-the-fracture-of-the-human-heartq-leiden-and-boston-brill-2011 |