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Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize.
Veena Das (Foreword By)
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.
Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.
Foreword by Veena Das | vii
Introduction | 1
1. Those Who Kill | 13
The Confessions | 14 ¿ The Killers' Testimonies | 19
2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance | 29
Fictions and Figures of Evil | 32 ¿ The Archaic Remnants of Evil | 39
3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies | 51
Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According
to Arendt | 54 ¿ When Ordinary Men Become
Killers | 65 ¿ Blind Obedience and Submission to
Authority | 73 ¿ The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man | 81
4. The Administration of Death | 92
To Make Die and Not to Let Live | 97 ¿ The Khmer
Rouge Administration of Death, 1975-79 | 102 ¿
From Genocide to Genocidaires | 118
5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires | 130
The Executioner | 134 ¿ Forms of Life and Ordinary
Lives | 141 ¿ The Neighborhood, or the Elementary
Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life | 148
Conclusion | 173
Acknowledgments | 193
Notes | 195
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
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Genre: | Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780823297863 |
ISBN-10: | 0823297861 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Rechtman, Richard |
Übersetzung: | Turner, Lindsay |
Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
Maße: | 200 x 129 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Richard Rechtman |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.11.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,287 kg |
Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize.
Veena Das (Foreword By)
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.
Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.
Foreword by Veena Das | vii
Introduction | 1
1. Those Who Kill | 13
The Confessions | 14 ¿ The Killers' Testimonies | 19
2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance | 29
Fictions and Figures of Evil | 32 ¿ The Archaic Remnants of Evil | 39
3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies | 51
Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According
to Arendt | 54 ¿ When Ordinary Men Become
Killers | 65 ¿ Blind Obedience and Submission to
Authority | 73 ¿ The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man | 81
4. The Administration of Death | 92
To Make Die and Not to Let Live | 97 ¿ The Khmer
Rouge Administration of Death, 1975-79 | 102 ¿
From Genocide to Genocidaires | 118
5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires | 130
The Executioner | 134 ¿ Forms of Life and Ordinary
Lives | 141 ¿ The Neighborhood, or the Elementary
Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life | 148
Conclusion | 173
Acknowledgments | 193
Notes | 195
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
---|---|
Genre: | Politikwissenschaften |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
ISBN-13: | 9780823297863 |
ISBN-10: | 0823297861 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Rechtman, Richard |
Übersetzung: | Turner, Lindsay |
Hersteller: | Fordham University Press |
Maße: | 200 x 129 x 20 mm |
Von/Mit: | Richard Rechtman |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 02.11.2021 |
Gewicht: | 0,287 kg |