Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
A dog dies having swallowed a pack of pills left lying around by the dog-minder. The dog-minder takes the position: 'It was the dog’s fault - it was his choice to eat the pills.' A Nazi camp guard on trial for war crimes pleads: 'I had no choice - I was just obeying orders.' Worlds apart though these two scenarios are, a similar mental process is in play in both. Both involve an attempt to shift responsibility elsewhere; both employ self-deception to conjure a version of events where responsibility does lie elsewhere. The mental process is called ’rationalization’. This book attempts to demonstrate that rationalization plays a far-reaching role not only in human interaction, but in the behaviour of organizations, in ideology, culture and global events.
