The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide
Publisher: Pluto Press | ISBN: 0745325440 | edition 2008 | CHM | 272 pages | 1,12 mb
From primatology to ancient Greece and Rome to the Bible, early-modern Europe and the Enlightenment, Docker’s profound and original analyses provide a deeply unsettling narrative of the longevity of human practices of group violence.
At the same time as The Origins of Violence dethrones regnant frameworks of genocide studies that stress the role of modernity or the state, and invites us to historicise genocide into the very longue duree, it challenges us to recognise the uncomfortable truth that genocidal tendencies remain tolerated, even celebrated, today - and not only in ‘developing countries’ - whenever they cohere with states’ self-images. A Gandhian plea for non-violence that shockingly demonstrates the almost Sisyphean nature of the task.
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