The Genocide Contagion: How We Commit and Confront Holocaust and GenocideIsrael W. Charny
This is a book about human nature and the “foundations of evil” that reside within us. Israel Charny utilizes a psychological approach to analyze how it is that all human beings can become potential perpetrators of genocide. The processes that allow us to kill our fellows in large numbers are intrin...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2018
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 487-489 |
| Review of: | The genocide contagion (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) (Smith, Roger W.)
The genocide contagion (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) (Smith, Roger W.) |
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| Summary: | This is a book about human nature and the “foundations of evil” that reside within us. Israel Charny utilizes a psychological approach to analyze how it is that all human beings can become potential perpetrators of genocide. The processes that allow us to kill our fellows in large numbers are intrinsic to our nature: “all are human, all are common, all are necessary for our everyday functioning as human beings, and all, without exception, are practiced by every one of us” (p. 32). All are necessary but taken to an extreme they become disruptive, dehumanizing, and threatening to the lives of others. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcy061 |