Suchergebnisse

part Part I: Present as History -- chapter 1 New Beginnings -- chapter 2 Defining Genocide -- chapter 3 Counting Bodies -- chapter 4 Collectivizing Death -- chapter 5 Individualizing Life -- part Part II: Past as Prologue -- chapter 6 Democracy, Autocracy, and Terrorism -- chapter 7 Human Rights and Personal Responsibilities -- chapter 8 Bureaucracy and State Power -- chapter 9 Nationalism and Genocidal Systems -- chapter 10 Totalitarianism as a Penal Colony -- part Part III: Future as Memory -- chapter 11 Memory as History -- chapter 12 Banality of State Power -- chapter 13 A Natural History of the Holocaust -- chapter 14 Jewish Survival in a Post-Holocaust World -- part Part IV: Toward a General Theory of State-Sponsored Crime -- chapter 15 Functional and Existential Visions of Genocide -- chapter 16 Exclusivity and Inclusivity of Collective Death -- chapter 17 Surviving the Genocidal State -- part Part V : Studying Genocide -- chapter 18 Life, Death, and Sociology -- chapter 19 Researching Genocide -- chapter 20 Gauging Genocide.

Sociological Self-Images: A Collective Portrait is a collection of papers on the self-images of different sociologists regarding their work, their profession, and their contributions to the social sciences. The book is comprised of 14 papers contributed by different experts in sociology, each of whom seeks to answer the following questions: 1. What do you consider the most unique characteristics of your way of defining sociology? 2. What is your view of the current relationship between sociological theory and social application? 3. Which sociologists influenced you or do you most respect? Are

Assaulting Hannah Arendt: the banality of criticism -- Hannah and Heidegger: once more into the tangled web of emotions and politics -- Hannah Arendt: juridical critic of totalitarianism -- Totalitarian visions of the good society -- The revolutionary experience in France and America -- Making political philosophy -- Open societies and free minds -- Hannah's choice: social science or political philosophy -- Beyond totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt as radical conservative.