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Informationen zum Autor Tzvetan Todorov is the author of The Conquest of America , Mikhail Bakhtin , On Human Diversity , Facing the Extreme , Imperfect Garden , Hope and Memor y, and The New World Disorder , among others. Gila Walker has translated more than one hundred works from French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François Julienne, Yves Bonnefoy, and Georges Didi-Huberman. Ryan Lobo is a producer, director, photographer and videographer whose films have been aired on National Geographic International and Animal Planet . Lobo has traveled the globe and documented a variety of topics including wildlife, science, archaeology, adventure, and nature. Klappentext "These photographs were taken at Oak Park Heights Prison in Minnesota in 2005 ... do not include any non-American prisoners or any terrorism suspects and have nothing to do with the war on terror"--About the photographs, p. (70). Zusammenfassung Argues that the use of the terms 'war' and 'terror' dehumanize the enemy and permit treatment that would otherwise be impermissible. This title examines the implications and corrupting impact of the attempt to impose 'good' through violence and the attempt to spread democratic values by unethical means.
A propos de l'auteur
Tzvetan Todorov is the author of
The Conquestof America,
Mikhail Bakhtin,
On Human Diversity,
Facing the Extreme,
Imperfect Garden,
Hope and Memory, and
The New World Disorder, among others.
Gila Walker has translated more than one hundred works from French, including texts by Jacques Derrida, François Julienne, Yves Bonnefoy, and Georges Didi-Huberman.
Ryan Lobo is a producer, director, photographer and videographer whose films have been aired on
National Geographic International and
Animal Planet. Lobo has traveled the globe and documented a variety of topics including wildlife, science, archaeology, adventure, and nature.
