Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries Rechtman Richard
Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries Rechtman Richard Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationWhen we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized…
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Living in Death: Genocide and Its Functionaries Rechtman Richard
Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationWhen we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. What is their consciousness? Who are these men who kill on a mass scale?
For Rechtman, it is not ideologies that kill, but people. Do they not feel horror or compassion?Richard Rechtman's Living in Death offers new answers to a question that has haunted us at least since the Holocaust. This book descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office.
Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes an anthropology of mass killers.Turning away from existing psychological and philosophical accounts of genocide's perpetrators, Rechtman instead explores the conditions under
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