Genocide, War, and Human Survival

From the tragic workings of the Holocaust and Hiroshima to contemporary examples of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, this provocative collection of original essays examines the enduring impact of cataclysmic events on the modern human psyche. Inspired by the career of Robert Jay Lifton, the distinguished contributors use a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to probe society, culture, and politics in the nuclear age and they explore the therapeutic value of artistic expression to witnesses and survivors of mass violence. The essays convey a message of hope by displaying the remarkable diversity of human responses to extreme adversity and by concluding that intellectuals and professionals have an abiding obligation to act responsibly in a world of violence and to provide healing images of transformation. Contributors:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Hiroshima and the Politics of History	p. 3
Hiroshima: The First Response	p. 21
Hiroshima and the Silence of Poetry	p. 31
Life after Death in Life	p. 41
On Pseudospeciation and Social Speciation	p. 51
To Prevent or to Stop Mass Murder	p. 59
Genocide and Warfare	p. 75
Victims, Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers in the Face of Genocide and Its Aftermath	p. 87
In Pursuit of Sugihara: The Banality of Good	p. 99
Genocide, Victimization, and America's Inner Cities	p. 111
Meeting the Challenge of Genocide in Bosnia: Reconciling Moral Imperatives with Political Constraints	p. 125
The Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide	p. 137
Saving Bosnia (and Ourselves)	p. 153
Manliness and the Great War	p. 165
U.S. over Iraq: High Technology and Low Culture in the Gulf Conflict	p. 177
Physicians and Nuclear War	p. 193
Development and Violence	p. 207
Tolstoi's Revenge: The Violence of Indian Non-Violence	p. 219
Thoughts on a Theater of Witness and Excerpts from Two Plays of Witness: Better People, The Beekeeper's Daughter	p. 231
Artists Witnessing "Ethnic Cleansing"	p. 243
Religion and Violence	p. 257
Back from the Abyss: Symbolic Immortality, Faith, and Human Survival	p. 269
Can There be a Psychoanalysis Without a Political Analysis?	p. 283
We Must Hear Each Other's Cry: Lessons from Pol Pot Survivors	p. 297
History, Objectivity, Commitment	p. 307
Exposing the Killing System: Robert Jay Lifton as Witness	p. 319
Index	p. 327
About the Contributors	p. 339
About the Editors	p. 343
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