ISBN:
9781108633642
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Emotions and mass atrocity
DDC:
303.601
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Völkermord
;
Gefühl
;
Ideengeschichte
Abstract:
A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Emotions and Mass Atrocity -- Part I Causes and Dynamics -- 2 Mass Exterminations and the History of Emotions: The View from Classical Antiquity -- 3 Fear, Hope, and the Formation of Specific Intention in Genocide -- 4 The Proud Executioner: Pride and the Psychology of Genocide -- 5 Pondering Hatred -- 6 Social Science and the Study of Perpetrators -- Part II Emotional Responses -- 7 "Destroy Your Sight with a New Gorgon": Mass Atrocity and the Phenomenology of Horror -- 8 Perpetrator Disgust: A Morally Destructive Emotion -- 9 Unraveling the Meaning of Survivor Shame -- 10 Beyond Empathy and Compassion: Genocide and the Emotional Complexities of Humanitarian Politics -- Part III Repair and Commemoration -- 11 Hope(s) after Genocide -- 12 Traumatic Emotions -- 13 Embarrassment and Political Repair -- References -- Index.
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