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Title The genocidal temptation : Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and beyond / edited by Robert S. Frey
Published Dallas [Tex.] : University Press of America, [2004]
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Description xix, 267 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Foreword / Harald Runbolm -- Preface / Robert S. Frey -- Chapter 1 Ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima / Darrell J. Fashing -- Chapter 2 Reflections on the Holocaust and Hiroshima / Eric Markusen -- Chapter 3 To deem or not to deem "it" genocide : a double-edged sword / Samuel Totten -- Chapter 4 More than genocide : Rwanda revisited (before and after 1994) / Henry R. Huttenbach -- Chapter 5 Afraid to call genocide genocide? : reflections on Rwanda and beyond / Steven Leonard Jacobs -- Chapter 6 "We call it genocide" : Soviet deportations and repression in the memory of Lithuanians Dovilé Budryté -- Chapter 7 -- The United States and the "g-word" : genocide and denial before and beyond Rwanda / Peter V. Ronayne -- Chapter 8 Are we all Nazis? : man's inhumanity to man and Goldhagen's Holocaustbabble / Hans Askenasy -- Chapter 9 The Holocaust and the MBA : a suggestion / Warren K. A. Thompson -- Chapter 10 Romancing the Apocalypse, or : Why we stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb / Steven Carter -- Chapter 11 Naturalizing moral agency : a critical review of some recent works on the biological and psychological bases of human morality / William A. Rottschaefer -- Chapter 12 Despair and hope in post-Shoah Jewish life / David R. Blumenthal -- Chapter 13 Auschwitz and Hiroshima / Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg -- Chapter 14 Hiroshima and the "Auschwitz Principle" : Günther Anders' Theory of Industrial Killing / Konrad Paul Liessmann -- Chapter 15 Hiroshima, mon amour? / Hans Askenasy -- Chapter 16 The power of individual decision making in gnereating hope in the Twentieth-First century : neutralizing genocidal tendencies / Robert S. Frey -- Chapter 17 Auschwitz and Hiroshima : icons of our century / David R. Blumenthal -- About the contributors -- Subject and name index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Genocide -- Rwanda.
Genocide.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
SUBJECT Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116783
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1990-1993 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97002612 -- Atrocities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99002431
Rwanda http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81025976 -- Genocide
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95003738
Author Frey, Robert Seitz, 1955-
LC no. 2003114939
ISBN 0761827439 paperback alkaline paper
Other Titles Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and beyond