Final solutions : human nature, capitalism and genocide / Sabby Sagall.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sagall, Sabby.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanity.

Social isolation.

Marginality, Social.

Social status.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What causes genocide? Through an examination of four modern genocides - the Native Americans, the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan Tutsis - Sabby Sagal formulates a theoretical framework for understanding some of the darkest hours of humanity. Drawing on the scholarship of a range of Marxist psychoanalysts, from the Frankfurt School to Wilhelm Reich, shows how genocides are enacted by social classes or communities that have experienced isolation and denial of human needs, prostration and humiliation at the hands of major historical defeats, or powerlessness. These denials or degradations produce severe reactions: hatred, destructiveness and an impotent rage, which is often projected onto a perceived 'other'. Through close analysis and theorising of the commonalities and differences between recent genocides, Sagal hopes to produce greater understanding of the socio-psychological rationale behind atrocities, in order to prevent recurrences.

Contents:

Introduction: Capitalism and Genocide; Part One: The Origins of Human Destructiveness; 1 Why Do People Kill People?; 2 Killers On the Couch; 3 What Makes Killers Tick?; 4 Killing 'Things'; Part Two: Four Modern Genocides; 5 Native American Genocide; 6 The Armenian Genocide; 7 The Nazi Holocaust; 8 The Rwandan Genocide; Summary and Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 14, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849648929

1849648921

9781849648912

1849648913

OCLC:

864091680