Final Solutions - Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide

Informationen zum Autor Sabby Sagall is a former senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. He writes regularly for Socialist Review and is the author of Final Solutions (Pluto Press, 2013). Klappentext What causes genocide? Through an examination of four modern genocides - the Native Americans, the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan Tutsis - Sabby Sagal formulates a theoretical framework for understanding some of the darkest hours of humanity. Drawing on the scholarship of a range of Marxist psychoanalysts, from the Frankfurt School to Wilhelm Reich, shows how genocides are enacted by social classes or communities that have experienced isolation and denial of human needs, prostration and humiliation at the hands of major historical defeats, or powerlessness. These denials or degradations produce severe reactions: hatred, destructiveness and an impotent rage, which is often projected onto a perceived 'other'. Through close analysis and theorising of the commonalities and differences between recent genocides, Sagal hopes to produce greater understanding of the socio-psychological rationale behind atrocities, in order to prevent recurrences. Zusammenfassung A highly original theoretical intervention into the causes of genocide! combining Marxism and psychoanalysis.

Product details

• Authors: Sabby Sagall, Sagall Sabby
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2013
• EAN: 9780745326535
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-2653-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Europe, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, c 1940 to c 1949, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust