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Książka THE MONSTER Jeff Hood

THE MONSTER

Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity, and the Death Penalty

Autor: Jeff Hood
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: Complicit Press
Dostępność: Zapowiedź
Wydanie 05. 06. 2026
44.86 zł
In The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty, Je...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Jeff Hood
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2026
strony
76
EAN
9798235985735
Enbook ID
52753061
Wydawca
Complicit Press
Waga
86
Wymiary
127 x 203 x 5

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In The Monster: Exploratory Essays on the Psychology of Violence, Humanity and the Death Penalty, Jeff Hood dismantles the convenient myth that monsters are born fundamentally different from the rest of us. Through a series of profound and unflinching essays, Hood traces the slow birth of monstrosity within ordinary human conditions...trauma, neglect, humiliation, and social failure...while confronting the psychological and theological architecture that allows society to exile the worst among us. Writing with rare authority from inside the reality of death row, Hood challenges readers to reconsider the very category of "monster" and its central role in sustaining capital punishment.

These essays move beyond simplistic notions of evil to explore the shared humanity between victim and perpetrator, the interior spiritual life of the condemned, the persistence of the image of God even in those who have caused irreparable harm and the possibility of redemption without diminishing accountability. With intellectual depth and unflinching honesty, The Monster invites readers into an uncomfortable but necessary confrontation...that understanding violence requires looking not only at the condemned, but at the systems, stories and fears we use to distance ourselves from them. This is a book for anyone willing to examine the moral cost of execution and the deeper question of what it truly means to be human.