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...

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.