Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
The Meaning of Evil
Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Modern History
ISBN: 978-0-367-18636-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Columbus Centre, a remarkable though largely forgotten research institute, was established at the University of Sussex in 1966, triggered by claims of a dearth of academic research about Nazism and the Holocaust. Its basic stated aim was to bring together psychoanalysis and history for a scholarly investigation of discrimination, mass violence, and the preconditions of genocide in the past and the present. The Nazi crimes were studied along with other instances of prejudice and mass violence, such as sixteenth- and seventeenth-century witch-hunts, South African apartheid, the persecution of the Roma people, and race relations in the United States and modern-day Britain. The book seeks to place the Columbus Centre in the historiography of mass violence by analysing the Centre’s works through four historiographical prisms or power relations in which they were produced: psychoanalysis, class, race, and gender.
This interdisciplinary volume is a valuable text for scholars and students of historiography, psychoanalysis, genocide and violence, and postwar Europe, and for professionals within the field of psychology.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
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Introduction: Towards the study of the scourge 1. To be an Eichmann is less rare than to be a saint: Psychoanalysis and the Columbus Centre 2. This Age of Unenlightened Despotism: Modernity, class, and the Columbus Centre 3. A Latent Possibility in all Mankind: Race, comparison, and the Columbus Centre 4. If you are looking for a witch, you are looking for a woman: Gender and the Columbus Centre. Epilogue: A numbing inner awareness