Get 'em All! Kill 'em!: Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities

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Lexington Books, 2005 - 199 páginas
To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately begs the question: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of an other group just because they are that other group: men, women, children? What sense can we make of genocide? The very meaning of 'sense' threatens to disintegrate. Get 'Em All Kill 'Em is the first systematic attempt to understand what, up until now, has seemed inexplicable. Author Bruce Wilshire uncovers what seems to be the deepest root of the genocidal urge: disgust and dread in the face of abounding, fecund, life itself_swarming, creeping, scurrying, unboundable, and uncontrollable. If his claims about the genocidal urge is true, genocide and terrorism are the ultimate anti-ecology. Get 'Em All Kill 'Em is a rare and seminal work by a distinguished and original thinker.

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GENOCIDE AND TERRORISM
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SPECIFIC CASES OF GENOCIDE NAZI GERMANY CALIFORNIA INDIANS
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THE EVERYDAY ILLUSION OF IMMORTALITY AND ITS DISRUPTION
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FURTHER CASES OF GENOCIDE BOSNIA CAMBODIA RWANDA
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A THEORY OF GENOCIDE AND TERRORISM
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CENTERINGDOWN INTO THE IMMEDIATEVARIATIONS ON THE THEME OF GENOCIDE
123
THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE? A RELIGIOUS RETARDANT TO GENOCIDE AND TERRORISM?
163
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Bruce Wilshire is Senior Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

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