The Origins Of Violence
Religion, History And Genocide
Genocide is commonly understood to be a terrible aberration in human behaviour, performed by evil, murderous regimes such as the Nazis and dictators like Suharto and Pinochet. John Docker argues that the roots of genocide go far deeper into human nature than most people realise. Genocide features widely in the Bible, the literature of ancient Greece and Rome, and debates about the Enlightenment. These texts are studied in depth to trace the origins of violence through time and across civilisations. Developing the groundbreaking work of Raphaël Lemkin, who invented the term 'genocide', Docker guides us from the dawn of a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7453-2543-9
- EAN: 9780745325439
- Produktnummer: 3840161
- Verlag: Pluto Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 274 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 370 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 370
Über den Autor
John Docker is Honorary Professor in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Origins of Violence (Pluto, 2008), 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), Postmodernism and Popular Culture (1994) and (with Ann Curthoys) Is History Fiction? (2005).
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