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Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide
Jacques Semelin
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Paperback. Philosophical consideration of genocide Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HBTZ; JPA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina while respecting the specificities of each. Based on the essential distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms 'delusional rationality', responding to fears, resentments and utopias, and re-modelling the social body by eliminating 'the enemy'. The main stages ... Read more
How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates that it is indeed possible to compare the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia-Hercegovina while respecting the specificities of each. Based on the essential distinction between massacre and genocide, Purify and Destroy identifies the main steps of a general process of destruction, rational and irrational, born of what Semelin terms 'delusional rationality', responding to fears, resentments and utopias, and re-modelling the social body by eliminating 'the enemy'. The main stages ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849043939
SKU
V9781849043939
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About Jacques Semelin
Jacques Semelin is professor of political science and research director at CERI-CNRS in Paris. After having studied civil resistance within Nazi Europe, he developed comparative genocide research and is now exploring processes of reconciliation and prevention. His previously published book in English is Unarmed Against Hitler: Civil Resistance in Europe, 1939-1943, and he is founder of the Online Encyclopedia of ... Read more
Reviews for Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide
'This book is a major accomplishment in the study of genocide. Semelin explores the deep cause, specific triggers, political and international context, dynamics of implementation, nature of killing, and political uses of genocide as a modern phenomenon.'
Omer Bartov, Brown University, and author of Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity
'[An] outstanding contribution to the field ... Read more
Omer Bartov, Brown University, and author of Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity
'[An] outstanding contribution to the field ... Read more