- Summary
- "This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. Do mechanisms or structures in nation states produce types of national citizens that are more susceptible to genocidal projects? There are powerful arguments within philosophy that in order to be the subjects of our own lives, we must constitute ourselves as specifically national subjects and organize ourselves into nation states. Additionally, there are other genocidal structures of human society that spill beyond historically limited episodes. The chapters in this volume address the significance-moral, ethical, political-of the fact that our very form of agency suggests or requires these structures. The contributors touch on topics including birthright citizenship, contemporary mass incarceration, anti-black racism, and late capitalism. Logics of Genocide will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy, critical theory, genocide studies, Holocaust and Jewish studies, history, and anthropology"-- Provided by publisher.
- Series
- Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy
Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020
©2020
- Contents
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Introduction / Anne O'Byrne and Martin Shuster
Hegel and state homogenization / Martin Shuster
Friends of war and genocide / Jacqueline Stevens
"Criminal" and the crime of genocide / Lissa Skitolsky
Genocide and agency in the Americas : methodological considerations / Rocío Zambrana
Generational being / Anne O'Byrne
Epigenetics and the molecular memory of genocide / Ada S. Jaarsma
"We charge genocide" : anti-black racism in the United States as genocidal structural violence / Lisa Guenther
Pornographic ways of looking and the logic of disposability / Kelly Oliver
Totalitarianism as structural violence : toward new grammars of listening / María del Rosario Acosta López
Gendercide, Rwanda, and post-genocidal violence / Alfred Frankowski
Law and oral history : hearing the claims of indigenous peoples / Jill Stauffer
Violence, right, and righteousness : thinking the political with and against Lévinas / Carly Lane
Structure and fantasy : Holocaust perpetrators and genocide studies / Dan Stone
Reasonable religion, reasonable states, and invisible violence / Heather Rae
Epilogue: Theses on our only possible future / James R. Watson.
- Other Authors/Editors
- O'Byrne, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth), 1966- editor.
Shuster, Martin, editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Anne O'Byrne and Martin Shuster -- Hegel and state homogenization / Martin Shuster -- Friends of war and genocide / Jacqueline Stevens -- "Criminal" and the crime of genocide / Lissa Skitolsky -- Genocide and agency in the Americas : methodological considerations / Rocío Zambrana -- Generational being / Anne O'Byrne -- Epigenetics and the molecular memory of genocide / Ada S. Jaarsma -- "We charge genocide" : anti-black racism in the United States as genocidal structural violence / Lisa Guenther -- Pornographic ways of looking and the logic of disposability / Kelly Oliver -- Totalitarianism as structural violence : toward new grammars of listening / María del Rosario Acosta López -- Gendercide, Rwanda, and post-genocidal violence / Alfred Frankowski -- Law and oral history : hearing the claims of indigenous peoples / Jill Stauffer -- Violence, right, and righteousness : thinking the political with and against Lévinas / Carly Lane -- Structure and fantasy : Holocaust perpetrators and genocide studies / Dan Stone -- Reasonable religion, reasonable states, and invisible violence / Heather Rae -- Epilogue: Theses on our only possible future / James R. Watson.
