The Origins of Violence Religion, History and Genocide

, by Docker, John

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ISBN: 9780745325446 | 0745325440
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/20/2008

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Shows that genocide has been present throughout history, and assesses why it persists in the modern age.

Genocide as ancient practice: chimpanzees, humans, agricultural society	p. 13
Raphael Lemkin	p. 14
Jane Goodall	p. 17
Jared Diamond	p. 29
Galarrwuy Yunupingu	p. 34
Hugh Brody	p. 35
Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancient Greek world: Herodotus and Thucydides	p. 39
Historical writing	p. 41
Herodotus	p. 42
Thucydides	p. 47
Genocide and the honour of nations	p. 50
Athens invades Sicily	p. 53
The challenge to Athens	p. 55
Conclusion: speaking to the future	p. 57
Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancient Greek tragedy: Aeschylus and Euripides	p. 61
Lemkin's analytic method	p. 62
Genocidal consciousness in Aeschylus's Agamemnon	p. 65
Perpetrator and victim consciousness in Euripides' Hecabe: terror and trauma	p. 69
Andromache: the slave as the stranger who disturbs	p. 75
War, genocide, and female and child suffering: The Women of Troy	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 85
Utopia and dystopia: Plato and Cicero's Republics	p. 89
Plato	p. 92
Cicero	p. 98
Debating the virtues of empire, Rome, natural law	p. 104
Conclusion: 'The Dream of Scipio'	p. 109
Victimology and genocide: the Bible's Exodus, Virgil's Aeneid	p. 113
Victimology and genocidal violence: Exodus and the Aeneid	p. 116
Exodus (and Joshua and Judges)	p. 117
The Aeneid	p. 129
Narrative and counter-narrative: the costs of conquest, colonization, empire	p. 132
Women and men	p. 135
Orientalism and European identity	p. 138
Conclusion	p. 139
Roman settler imperialism in Britain: narrative and counter-narrative in Tacitus's Agricola and Germania	p. 145
Affirmative narrative	p. 148
Counter-narrative	p. 152
Conclusion: a divided legacy	p. 157
The honourable colonizer	p. 161
Promoters and adventurers	p. 162
Founding legends	p. 169
International law, early modern English style	p. 172
Biography and morality	p. 174
The right to colonize	p. 177
Honourable colonization in The Tempest	p. 182
Conclusion	p. 186
Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?	p. 189
Spinoza	p. 195
Toland	p. 200
Philosemitism and Islamophilia	p. 205
Hume, Lyotard, Deleuze	p. 208
Conclusion	p. 213
Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?	p. 217
Index	p. 249
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The Origins of Violence Religion, History and Genocide

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