Emotions and Mass Atrocity - Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Brudholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Johannes Lang is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark. Zusammenfassung A new perspective on collective violence and its aftermath! this unique collection of essays foregrounds the importance of emotions in and after mass violence or genocide. The authors are drawn from a range of disciplines and provide sophisticated and provocative analyses of the emotional responses to mass atrocity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction - emotions and mass atrocity Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang; Part I. Causes and Dynamics: 2. Mass exterminations and the history of emotions - the view from classical antiquity David Konstan; 3. Fear, hope, and the formation of specific intention in genocide Neta C. Crawford; 4. The proud executioner - pride and the psychology of genocide Johannes Lang; 5. Pondering hatred Thomas Brudholm and Birgitte S. Johansen; 6. Social science and the study of perpetrators Arne Johan Vetlesen; Part II. Emotional Responses: 7. 'Destroy your sight with a new gorgon' - mass atrocity and the phenomenology of horror Adriana Cavarero; 8. Perpetrator disgust: a morally destructive emotion Ditte Marie Munch-Jurisic; 9. Unravelling the meaning of survivor shame Alba Montes Sánchez and Dan Zahavi; 10. Beyond empathy and compassion: genocide and the emotional complexities of humanitarian politics Andrew A. G. Ross; Part III. Repair and Commemoration: 11. Hope(s) after genocide Margaret Urban Walker; 12. Traumatic emotions Jeffrey Blustein; 13. Embarrassment and political repair Nir Eisikovits.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas (University of Copenhagen) Lang Brudholm
• Assisted by: Thomas Brudholm (Editor), Thomas (University of Copenhagen) Brudholm (Editor), Brudholm Thomas (Editor), Johannes Lang (Editor), Lang Johannes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781107567047
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56704-7
• No. of pages: 317
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Europe, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Psychology: emotions, Ethics & moral philosophy, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social, group or collective psychology, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Ethics and moral philosophy, War Crimes, c 1940 to c 1949, Human rights, civil rights, History and Archaeology, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing