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Informationen zum Autor Ward, Mark Zusammenfassung Scholars, teachers, and practitioners of organizational, professional, and technical communication and rhetoric are target audiences for a new book that reaches across those disciplines to explore the dynamics of the Holocaust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Mark Ward, Sr. Acknowledgments CHAPTER 1: Can Genocide Be Regulated? An Ontological Shift Revisiting the Final Solution Sample, Method, and Chapter Organization The Importance of the Study CHAPTER 2: From Darwin to Death Wagons Origins of European Anti-Semitism The Rise of Racial Anti-Semitism Development of the Gas Vans Operational Challenges in the Field CHAPTER 3: The People’s Community Organizations as Open Systems Unifying Principles of Institutional Culture Aspects of SS Organizational Culture Lines of Organizational Authority German Bureaucratic Document Protocols CHAPTER 4: The Participants and Their Motives Personnel of the Gas Van Program Individual Relationships and Motives CHAPTER 5: Documents for Destruction Setting Up the Analyses Introducing the Documents CHAPTER 6: A Community of Killers Constructing the Rhetorical Community A “Safety” Narrative and Protean Metaphors Discovering Organizational Genres in the Texts Rhetorical Community in Organizational Contexts Visuality in the Rhetorical Community CHAPTER 7: Discourse of Death What Discourse Analysis Can Add The Killers’ Use of Linguistic Resources Reconstructing an Organizational Discourse CHAPTER 8: Revisiting “Expediency” Boundary Work in Action Lanzmann and the “Why” Question Implications of the Lanzmann Alterations CHAPTER 9: Bridging the Boundaries An Ahistorical Consensus? Expediency Without Ethics Protecting Rhetoric and Rhetoricians Safeguarding Science and Civilization Converging on a Comfortable Distance What the Orderings May Reveal CHAPTER 10: Some Ethical Implications A Bias for Explanation Prescriptive and Descriptive Ethics Afterword: The Reality of Words and Their Aftermaths Steven B. Katz References Index ...
