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Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
Sabby Sagall
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Description for Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
Hardback. A highly original theoretical intervention into the causes of genocide, combining Marxism and psychoanalysis. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBTZ1; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
What causes genocide? Through an examination of four modern genocides - the Native Americans, the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan Tutsis - Sabby Sagal formulates a theoretical framework for understanding some of the darkest hours of humanity.
Drawing on the scholarship of a range of Marxist psychoanalysts, from the Frankfurt School to Wilhelm Reich, shows how genocides are enacted by social classes or communities that have experienced isolation and denial of human needs, prostration and humiliation at the hands of major historical defeats, or powerlessness. These denials or degradations produce severe reactions: hatred, destructiveness and ... Read more
What causes genocide? Through an examination of four modern genocides - the Native Americans, the Armenians, the Jews and the Rwandan Tutsis - Sabby Sagal formulates a theoretical framework for understanding some of the darkest hours of humanity.
Drawing on the scholarship of a range of Marxist psychoanalysts, from the Frankfurt School to Wilhelm Reich, shows how genocides are enacted by social classes or communities that have experienced isolation and denial of human needs, prostration and humiliation at the hands of major historical defeats, or powerlessness. These denials or degradations produce severe reactions: hatred, destructiveness and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745326542
SKU
V9780745326542
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About Sabby Sagall
Sabby Sagall is a former senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of East London. He writes regularly for Socialist Review and is the author of Final Solutions (Pluto Press, 2013).
Reviews for Final Solutions: Human Nature, Capitalism and Genocide
'Disturbing yet enlightening'
Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College 'Illuminates that hottest button of topics - modern genocide. No one has made so cogent a case for a Marxist analysis'
Kurt Jacobsen, University of Chicago, author of Pacification and Its Discontents (2010) and Freud’s Foes (2009) 'A hugely ambitious book which covers immense historical ground and attempts ... Read more
Kevin Kenny, Professor of History, Boston College 'Illuminates that hottest button of topics - modern genocide. No one has made so cogent a case for a Marxist analysis'
Kurt Jacobsen, University of Chicago, author of Pacification and Its Discontents (2010) and Freud’s Foes (2009) 'A hugely ambitious book which covers immense historical ground and attempts ... Read more