Living in Death 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 both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.
Living in Death 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 both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.
Richard Rechtman (Author) Richard Rechtman is an anthropologist and psychiatrist and director of studies at EHESS in Paris. Since 1990, he has directed a transcultural outpatient clinic for refugees in central Paris. He is the author of several books in French and coauthor, with Didier Fassin, of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood (2009), which won the William A. Douglass Book Prize. Veena Das (Foreword By) Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Lindsay Turner (Translator) Lindsay Turner, a poet and translator, is Assistant Professor of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver. She has translated books by Stéphane Bouquet, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Anne Dufourmantelle, Frédéric Neyrat, and Ryoko Sekiguchi.
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Foreword by Veena Das vii Introduction 1 1. Those Who Kill 13 The Confessions 14 The Killers Testimonies 19 2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance 29 Fictions and Figures of Evil 32 The Archaic Remnants of Evil 39 3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies 51 Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According to Arendt 54 When Ordinary Men Become Killers 65 Blind Obedience and Submission to Authority 73 The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man 81 4. The Administration of Death 92 To Make Die and Not to Let Live 97 The Khmer Rouge Administration of Death, 1975 79 102 From Genocide to Genocidaires 118 5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires 130 The Executioner 134 Forms of Life and Ordinary Lives 141 The Neighborhood, or the Elementary Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life 148 Conclusion 173 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195
Foreword by Veena Das vii Introduction 1 1. Those Who Kill 13 The Confessions 14 The Killers Testimonies 19 2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance 29 Fictions and Figures of Evil 32 The Archaic Remnants of Evil 39 3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies 51 Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According to Arendt 54 When Ordinary Men Become Killers 65 Blind Obedience and Submission to Authority 73 The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man 81 4. The Administration of Death 92 To Make Die and Not to Let Live 97 The Khmer Rouge Administration of Death, 1975 79 102 From Genocide to Genocidaires 118 5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires 130 The Executioner 134 Forms of Life and Ordinary Lives 141 The Neighborhood, or the Elementary Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life 148 Conclusion 173 Acknowledgments 193 Notes 195
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