Metacide : in the pursuit of excellence / edited by James R. Watson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Watson, James R.

Series:

Value Inquiry Book Series 216.

Value inquiry book series, Holocaust and genocide studies, HGS 0929-8436 ; v. 216.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genocide--Philosophy.

Genocide.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 314 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If philosophy addresses concrete ethical challenges, then what shifts in basic concepts must be made to the discipline in the darkness of our genocidal world? What anti-genocidal strains are in Western philosophy? Are we “really” rejects and/ or “still of intrinsic worth” when we fail our excellence tests? How are we represented and how do we participate in representations? Are representational forms historical in origin and development? Is genocide indissolubly linked to our degradation and destruction of animals? Can one slaughter and eat one’s partners in a social bond? If so, what does this tell us about the socio-political world we have formed? Is there a deep center—metacide—in our culture from which genocide receives its impulse? These are some of the pivotal questions addressed in the thirteen thought-provoking essays of this volume.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Editor’s Introduction

THE DIFFEREND THAT IS GLOBAL: CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY AS A CHALLENGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS / Bettina G. Bergo

THE MEANNESS IS [NOT ENTIRELY] IN THE SYSTEM / Thomas R. Flynn

SCIENCE AND HUMAN NATURE: HOW TO GO FROM NATURE TO ETHICS / Dorothea Olkowski

TO REVERSE THE IRREVERSIBLE: ON TIME DISORDER IN THE WORK OF JEAN AMÉRY / Roy Ben Shai

FINDING MAN IN DER MUSELMANN: THE USE and ABUSE OF THE WALKING DEAD / Lissa Skitolsky

OPERATION BARBAROSSA AS GENOCIDAL WARFARE / André Mineau

FEMINIST PHILOSOPHICAL INTERVENTION IN GENOCIDE / Natalie Nenadic

SHOOTING THE UNIMAGINABLE: ON THE RECEPTION OF FOUR SHOAH PHOTOGRAPHS / Marc De Kesel

ROUSSEAU, PLATO, AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’S ANTI-GENOCIDAL STRAIN / Henry C. Theriault

DISCONCERTING FORMS: UNEASINESS AND THE DISLOCATION OF HOLOCAUST CINEMA / Todd Kesselman

ANIMAL TRACINGS IN ADORNO’S REFLECTIONS ON GENOCIDAL MACHINES / Erik M. Vogt

THE TERROR OF ANIMALITY: ARENDT, BADIOU, SARTRE / Ryan Crawford

GENOCIDE IN THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE / James R. Watson

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

INDEX

VIBS.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9789042028548

9042028548

OCLC:

653245121

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042028548 DOI