Publisher's Synopsis
The area of tension in interpersonal relationships casts, loaded with hatred, its pathological shadows. Human life emerges in its individual and collective, private and public manifestation forms not only around the semantics of freedom, equality and fraternity. The primacy of a peaceful coexistence of diverse homelands, charity and altruism is frequently turned into its exact opposite during the periods of split societies, since there seems to exist a common human need to always trample on someone. On the one hand, by means of literary, cultural and linguistic analyses, hate-driven conflict situations based on origin, ethnic group and nationality, culture, system and world view, denomination and religious affiliation, gender, sexuality and body aesthetics are investigated. On the other hand, the concepts of provenance, (in)visibility and intensity of hatred experiences as well as the reciprocity question in terms of prevention and defense mechanisms are critically questioned.
