Living in Death Genocide and Its Functionaries.

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Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possib...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rechtman, Richard
Otros Autores: Turner, Lindsay, Das, Veena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2021.
Colección:Thinking from Elsewhere Ser.
Temas:
Genocide > Psychological aspects.
Mass murderers > Psychology.
Tueurs de masse > Psychologie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes
Genocide > Psychological aspects
Mass murderers > Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Living in Death
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1 Those Who Kill
  • The Confessions
  • The Killers' Testimonies
  • 2 Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance
  • Fictions and Figures of Evil
  • The Archaic Remnants of Evil
  • 3 Ordinary Man and His Pathologies
  • Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According to Arendt
  • When Ordinary Men Become Killers
  • Blind Obedience and Submission to Authority
  • The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man
  • 4 The Administration of Death
  • To Make Die and Not to Let Live
  • The Khmer Rouge Administration of Death, 1975-79
  • From Genocide to Genocidaires
  • 5 The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires
  • The Executioner
  • Forms of Life and Ordinary Lives
  • The Neighborhood, or the Elementary Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes

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