Rechtman Living in Death

Genocide and Its Functionaries
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-8232-9788-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Thinking from Elsewhere

Living in Death descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rechtman, Richard

Weitere Mitwirkende

Das, Veena

Turner, Lindsay

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Genozid und ethnische Säuberung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Veena Das vii

Introduction 1

1. Those Who Kill 13
The Confessions 14 • The Killers’ Testimonies 19

2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance 29
Fictions and Figures of Evil 32 • The Archaic Remnants of Evil 39

3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies 51
Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According
to Arendt 54 • When Ordinary Men Become
Killers 65 • Blind Obedience and Submission to
Authority 73 • The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man 81

4. The Administration of Death 92
To Make Die and Not to Let Live 97 • The Khmer
Rouge Administration of Death, 1975–79 102 •
From Genocide to Genocidaires 118

5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires 130
The Executioner 134 • Forms of Life and Ordinary
Lives 141 • The Neighborhood, or the Elementary
Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life 148

Conclusion 173

Acknowledgments 193

Notes 195

Über Autor(innen)

Rechtman Richard:
Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize.Turner Lindsay:
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.Das Veena:
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.Richard Rechtman (Author)
Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize.

Veena Das (Foreword By)
Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University.

Lindsay Turner (Translator)
Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.