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Emotions and Mass Atrocity

Emotions and Mass Atrocity Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations

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Publisher's Synopsis

The study of genocide and mass atrocity abounds with references to emotions: fear, anger, horror, shame and hatred. Yet we don't understand enough about how 'ordinary' emotions behave in such extreme contexts. Emotions are not merely subjective and interpersonal phenomena; they are also powerful social and political forces, deeply involved in the history of mass violence. Drawing on recent insights from philosophy, psychology, history, and the social sciences, this volume examines the emotions of perpetrators, victims, and bystanders. Editors Thomas Brudholm and Johannes Lang have brought together an interdisciplinary group of prominent scholars to provide an in-depth analysis of the nature, value, and role of emotions as they relate to the causes and dynamics of mass atrocities. The result is a new perspective on the social, political, and moral dimensions of emotions in the history of collective violence and its aftermath.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781107567047
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 303.601
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 317
Weight: 470g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm
Spine width: 21mm