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Description for Love to Hate
Paperback. Roy explains the culture of violence and hate in America. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTB; JFC; JFFE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Why? is the simple, impulsive question we ask when confronted by horrible acts of hatred and violence. Why do students shoot fellow students or employees their coworkers? Why do mothers drown their children or husbands stalk and kill their wives? Love to Hate challenges us to turn this question upon ourselves at a deeper level. Why, as a culture, are we so fascinated by these acts? Why do we bestow celebrity on the perpetrators, while allowing the victims to fade into a second death of obscurity? Are we, as Pope John Paul II famously accused, "a culture of death"? And ... Read more
Why? is the simple, impulsive question we ask when confronted by horrible acts of hatred and violence. Why do students shoot fellow students or employees their coworkers? Why do mothers drown their children or husbands stalk and kill their wives? Love to Hate challenges us to turn this question upon ourselves at a deeper level. Why, as a culture, are we so fascinated by these acts? Why do we bestow celebrity on the perpetrators, while allowing the victims to fade into a second death of obscurity? Are we, as Pope John Paul II famously accused, "a culture of death"? And ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231125697
SKU
V9780231125697
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About Jody Roy
Jody M. Roy is associate professor of speech communication at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, and executive director of Students Talking About Respect, Inc., a nonprofit educational initiative dedicated to preventing hatred and violence among youth.
Reviews for Love to Hate
A commentary on America's obsession with violence. Youth Today