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This book uses philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. The chapters in this volume address the moral, ethical, and political significance of the fact that our agency requires structures that may make nation states and national citizens more susceptible to genocidal projects.
List of contents
Preface
Donald Bloxham
Introduction
Anne O’Byrne and Martin Shuster
Part I Agency and Institutions
1. Hegel and State Homogenization
Martin Shuster
2. The Friends of War and Genocide
Jacqueline Stevens
3. The ‘Criminal’ and the Crime of Genocide
Lissa Skitolsky
4. Genocide and Agency in the Americas: Methodological Considerations
Rocío Zambrana
Part II Bodies and Beyond
5. Generational Being
Anne O’Byrne
6. Epigenetics and Existential Reflections on Trauma
Ada S. Jaarsma
7. "We Charge Genocide": Anti-Black Racism in the United States as Genocidal Structural Violence
Lisa Guenther
8. Pornographic Ways of Looking and the Logic of Disposability
Kelly Oliver
Part III Time and Violence
9. Totalitarianism as Structural Violence: Towards New Grammars of Listening
María del Rosario Acosta López
10. Gendercide, Rwanda, and Post-Genocidal Violence
Al Frankowski
11. Law and Oral History: Hearing the Claims of Indigenous Peoples
Jill Stauffer
Part IV Ethos and Violence
12. Violence, Right, and Righteousness: Thinking the Political with and Against Lévinas
Carly Lane
13. Structure and Fantasy: Holocaust Perpetrators and Genocide Studies
Dan Stone
14. Reasonable Religion, Reasonable States, and Invisible Violence
Heather Rae
Epilogue: Theses on Our Only Possible Future
James R. Watson
About the author
Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is author of Natality and Finitude (2010), co-editor of Subjects and Simulations: Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe (2014), translator of Jean-Luc Nancy’s Being Singular Plural and Corpus II, and author of numerous articles on politics, ontology, biology, and generational being.
Martin Shuster is associate professor of philosophy at Goucher College, where he also directs the Center for Geographies of Justice and where he is jointly appointed in the Humanities Center. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno German Idealism and Modernity (2014), New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre (2017), and How to Measure a World? A Philosophy of Judaism (2021).
Summary
This book uses philosophical approaches to explore the idea of genocidal violence as a structural element in the world. The chapters in this volume address the moral, ethical, and political significance of the fact that our agency requires structures that may make nation states and national citizens more susceptible to genocidal projects.
