Purify and Destroy : The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide

Name: Purify and Destroy
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9781849043939
Price: 4500 KES
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ISBN: 9781849043939

by Jacques Semelin

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1849043930

ISBN-13 9781849043939

Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 30th, 2014

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 574 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 13.80 x 2.70 cms

Product Classification: Genocide & ethnic cleansing Political science & theory Political science and theory Genocide and ethnic cleansing

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Philosophical consideration of genocide

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 that can lead to a genocidal process, with ordinary people becoming perpetrators, are also identified.

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