Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
303.601
Keywords:
Political atrocities
;
Atrocities
;
Violence
;
Political violence
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence
Abstract:
8 Perpetrator Disgust: A Morally Destructive Emotion9 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
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 â#x80;#x9C;Destroy Your Sight with a New Gorgonâ#x80;#x9D;: Mass Atrocity and the Phenomenology of Horror
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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