Genocidal Temptation

Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

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The fact that Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Rwanda cast ominous shadows forward into the future compels us to confront these horrific results of the human head, heart, and hand. In Genocidal Temptation, Robert Frey presents a compelling, integrated focus directed toward the Nazi killing programs, American atomic bombings in Japan, Tutsi massacres in Rwanda, Soviet genocide in Lithuania, and other mass killing and repression programs.

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Utgivningsdatum2004-02-10
Mått148 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt372 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761827436

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Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 Ethics After Auschwitz and HiroshimaChapter 4 Reflections on the Holocaust and HiroshimaChapter 5 To Deem nor Not to Deem "It" Genocide: A Double-Edged SwordChapter 6 More Than Genocide: Rwanda Revisited (Before and After 1994)Chapter 7 Afraid to Call Genocide Genocide? Reflections on Rwanda and BeyondChapter 8 "We Call It Genocide": Soviet Deportations and Repression in the Memory of LithuaniansChapter 9 The United States and the "G-Word": Genocide and Denial Before and Beyond RwandaChapter 10 Are We All Nazis?: Man's Inhumanity to Man and Goldhagen's HolocaustbabbleChapter 11 The Holocaust and the MBA: A SuggestionChapter 12 Romancing the Apocalypse, or: Why We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the BombChapter 13 Naturalizing Moral Agency: A Critical Review of Some Recent Works on the Biological and Psychological Bases of Human MoralityChapter 14 Despair and Hope in Post-Shoah Jewish LifeChapter 15 Auschwitz and HiroshimaChapter 16 Hiroshima and the "Auschwitz Principle": Günther Anders' Theory of Industrial KillingChapter 17 Hiroshima, Mon Amour?Chapter 18 The Power of Individual Decision Making in Generating Hope in the Twentieth- First Century: Neutralizing Genocidal TendenciesChapter 19 Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Icons of Our CenturyChapter 20 About the ContributorsChapter 21 Subject and Name Index

By drawing on diverse disciplines and theories, Robert Frey's collection of essays makes an important contribution to Holocaust and Genocide history. Scholars will find particularly interesting the contributions on neutralizing genocidal tendencies and those dealing with trauma and memory in the wake of the Holocaust. The essays on Hiroshima, too, will spark a needed discussion about what constitutes genocide and the dangers of comparative victimization.