Richard Rechtman

Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries

Übersetzer: Turner, Lindsay

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 possible.

Produktdetails

• Thinking from Elsewhere
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 129mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780823297863
• ISBN-10: 0823297861
• Artikelnr.: 60976576

Autorenporträt

Richard Rechtman

Inhaltsangabe

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