The Genocide Paradox : Democracy and Generational Time

Democracies abhor genocide and yet they perpetrate their own genocidal violence and then fail to acknowledge it. Drawing on the history of biological taxonomies, anthropological studies of kinship, and radical democratic theory, this work studies the root of the problem in the paradoxes of democrati...

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Autor principal: O'Byrne, Anne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2023.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Democracy and Genos
  • Generational Being
  • Genocidal Violence
  • Ontology and Judgment-On Method
  • A Note on Genos
  • 1. Genos
  • Introduction
  • The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of Order
  • Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer
  • Darwin: Heredity and the Temporal Order
  • The Unstable Clade and the Naturalization of Generational Being
  • 2. How Much Kin Does a Person Need?
  • Introduction
  • Absolute Belonging: Atavus and Beyond
  • The Life of Blood
  • The Evidence of DNA
  • Genealogical Thinking
  • Creating Kin
  • Genocide as Aenocide
  • 3. What's Wrong with Genocide?
  • Introduction
  • Genocide and the End of Ethics
  • Genocide Beyond the End of Ethics
  • Genocidal Life: The Case of Sexual Violence
  • Ontology and Politics
  • 4. Democracy of Generational Beings
  • The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox
  • Genos and Cosmos
  • Genos and Demos
  • The Problem of Time for Democracies
  • Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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