The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and BeyondRobert Seitz Frey University Press of America, 2004 - 267 pages The fact that Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Rwanda cast ominous shadows forward into the future compels us to confront these horrific results of the human head, heart, and hand. In Genocidal Temptation, Robert Frey presents a compelling, integrated focus directed toward the Nazi killing programs, American atomic bombings in Japan, Tutsi massacres in Rwanda, Soviet genocide in Lithuania, and other mass killing and repression programs. |
Contents
Ethics After Auschwitz and Hiroshima | 1 |
Reflections on the Holocaust and Hiroshima | 25 |
To Deem or Not To Deem It Genocide A DoubleEdged Sword | 41 |
More Than Genocide Rwanda Revisited Before and After 1994 | 57 |
Afraid to Call Genocide Genocide? Reflections on Rwanda and Beyond | 67 |
We Call It Genocide Soviet Deportations and Repression in the Memory of Lithuanians | 79 |
The United States and the GWord Genocide and Denial Before and Beyond Rwanda | 101 |
Are We All Nazis? Mans Inhumanity to Man and Goldhagens Holocaustbabblea | 115 |
Naturalizing Moral Agency A Critical Review of Some Recent Works on the Biological and Psychological Bases of Human Morality | 155 |
Despair and Hope in PostShoah Jewish Life | 173 |
Auschwitz and Hiroshima | 187 |
Hiroshima and the Auschwitz Principle Giinther Anders Theory of Industrial Killing | 193 |
Hiroshima Mon Amour? | 207 |
The Power of Individual Decision Making in Generating Hope in the TwentiethFirst Century Neutralizing Genocidal Tendencies | 225 |
Auschwitz and Hiroshima Icons of Our Century | 241 |
About The Contributors | 257 |
The Holocaust and the MBA A Suggestion | 131 |
Romancing the Apocalypse or Why We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb | 139 |
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References to this book
Genocide and Fascism: The Eliminationist Drive in Fascist Europe Aristotle A. Kallis No preview available - 2009 |