Metacide : : in the pursuit of excellence / / edited by James R. Watson.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series, Holocaust and genocide studies, HGS v. 216.
• TeilnehmendeR: Watson, James R.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 216.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 314 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

If philosophy addresses concrete ethical challenges, then what shifts in basic concepts must be made to the discipline in the darkness of our genocidal world? What anti-genocidal strains are in Western philosophy? Are we “really” rejects and/ or “still of intrinsic worth” when we fail our excellence tests? How are we represented and how do we participate in representations? Are representational forms historical in origin and development? Is genocide indissolubly linked to our degradation and destruction of animals? Can one slaughter and eat one’s partners in a social bond? If so, what does this tell us about the socio-political world we have formed? Is there a deep center—metacide—in our culture from which genocide receives its impulse? These are some of the pivotal questions addressed in the thirteen thought-provoking essays of this volume.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Editor’s Introduction -- THE DIFFEREND THAT IS GLOBAL: CONTEMPORARY SLAVERY AS A CHALLENGE TO HUMAN RIGHTS / Bettina G. Bergo -- THE MEANNESS IS [NOT ENTIRELY] IN THE SYSTEM / Thomas R. Flynn -- SCIENCE AND HUMAN NATURE: HOW TO GO FROM NATURE TO ETHICS / Dorothea Olkowski -- TO REVERSE THE IRREVERSIBLE: ON TIME DISORDER IN THE WORK OF JEAN AMÉRY / Roy Ben Shai -- FINDING MAN IN DER MUSELMANN: THE USE and ABUSE OF THE WALKING DEAD / Lissa Skitolsky -- OPERATION BARBAROSSA AS GENOCIDAL WARFARE / André Mineau -- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHICAL INTERVENTION IN GENOCIDE / Natalie Nenadic -- SHOOTING THE UNIMAGINABLE: ON THE RECEPTION OF FOUR SHOAH PHOTOGRAPHS / Marc De Kesel -- ROUSSEAU, PLATO, AND WESTERN PHILOSOPHY’S ANTI-GENOCIDAL STRAIN / Henry C. Theriault -- DISCONCERTING FORMS: UNEASINESS AND THE DISLOCATION OF HOLOCAUST CINEMA / Todd Kesselman -- ANIMAL TRACINGS IN ADORNO’S REFLECTIONS ON GENOCIDAL MACHINES / Erik M. Vogt -- THE TERROR OF ANIMALITY: ARENDT, BADIOU, SARTRE / Ryan Crawford -- GENOCIDE IN THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE / James R. Watson -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX -- VIBS.