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 democratic inheritance and revolution, asking: What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?
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 democratic inheritance and revolution, asking: What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?
Anne O'Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Democracy and Genos 1 Generational Being, 10 Genocidal Violence, 18 Ontology and Judgment-On Method, 23 A Note on Genos, 31 1 Genos 33 Introduction, 33 The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of Order, 36 Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 Darwin: Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 The Unstable Clade and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57 2 How Much Kin Does a Person Need? 64 Introduction, 64 Absolute Belonging: Atavus and Beyond, 64 The Life of Blood, 73 The Evidence of DNA, 77 Genealogical Th inking, 81 Creating Kin, 93 Genocide as Aenocide, 98 3 What's Wrong with Genocide? 103 Introduction, 103 Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 Genocidal Life: The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 Ontology and Politics, 119 4 Democracy of Generational Beings 126 The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 Genos and Cosmos, 131 Genos and Demos, 136 The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141 Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy 151 Acknowledgments 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 203 Index 221
Introduction: Democracy and Genos 1 Generational Being, 10 Genocidal Violence, 18 Ontology and Judgment-On Method, 23 A Note on Genos, 31 1 Genos 33 Introduction, 33 The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of Order, 36 Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 Darwin: Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 The Unstable Clade and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57 2 How Much Kin Does a Person Need? 64 Introduction, 64 Absolute Belonging: Atavus and Beyond, 64 The Life of Blood, 73 The Evidence of DNA, 77 Genealogical Th inking, 81 Creating Kin, 93 Genocide as Aenocide, 98 3 What's Wrong with Genocide? 103 Introduction, 103 Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 Genocidal Life: The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 Ontology and Politics, 119 4 Democracy of Generational Beings 126 The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 Genos and Cosmos, 131 Genos and Demos, 136 The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141 Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy 151 Acknowledgments 165 Notes 167 Bibliography 203 Index 221
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