The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda, and Beyond

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Robert 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.
 

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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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About the author (2004)

Robert S. Frey is Editor/Publisher, BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Vice President, Knowledge Management & Proposal Development for an award-winning information technology company.

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