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More than sixty million people have been victims of genocide in the twentieth century alone, including recent casualties in Bosnia and Rwanda. Herbert Hirsch studies repetitions of large-scale human violence in order to ascertain why people in every historical epoch seem so willing to kill each other. He argues that the primal passions unleashed in the cause of genocide are tied to the manipulation of memory for political purposes.According to Hirsch, leaders often invoke or create memories of real or fictitious past injustices to motivate their followers to kill for political gain or other reasons. Generations pass on their particular versions of events, which then become history. If we understand how cultural memory is created, Hirsch says, we may then begin to understand how and why episodes of mass murder occur and will be able to act to prevent them. In order to revise the politics of memory, Hirsch proposes essential reforms in both the modern political state and in systems of education.
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Genocide and the Politics of Memory : Studying Death to Preserve Life
author
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Hirsch, Herbert.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807821985
print isbn13
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9780807821985
ebook isbn13
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9780807862056
language
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English
subject
Genocide, Memory--Social aspects, Social conflict--Psychological aspects.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
HV6322.7.H55 1995eb
ddc
:
304.6/63
subject
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Genocide, Memory--Social aspects, Social conflict--Psychological aspects.
Genocide and the Politics of Memory
Studying Death to Preserve Life
Herbert Hirsch
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS Chapel Hill & London
1995 The University ofNorth Carolina PressAll rights reservedManufactured in theUnited States ofAmericaThe paper in thisbook meets the guidelinesfor permanence anddurability of theCommittee onProduction Guidelinesfor Book Longevityof the Council onLibrary Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hirsch, Herbert, 1941
Genocide and the politics of memory: studying death
to preserve life / by Herbert Hirsch.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2198-5 (alk. paper).
ISBN 0-8078-4505-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Genocide. 2. MemorySocial aspects.
3. Social conflictPsychological aspects. I. Title.
HV6322.7.H55 1995
304.6'63dc20 94-29750
CIP
99 98 97 96 95 5 4 3 2 1
To hope for the future and, therefore, to my children and all children, for they are the carriers of memory and the repositories of hope.
Whenever man has thought it necessary to create a memory for himself, his effort has been attended with torture, blood, sacrifice. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy and the Genealogy of Morals (1956)
Like Rumkowski, we too are so dazzled by power and money as to forget our essential fragility, forget that all of us are in the ghetto, that the ghetto is fenced in, that beyond the fence stand the lords of death, and not far away the train is waiting. Primo Levi, Moments of Reprieve (1987)
Contents
Preface
xi
Acknowledgments
xiii
SECTION I. POLITICS, MEMORY, AND MASS DEATH
1
1 Memory and Politics in Bosnia
5
2 The Politics of Memory
10
3 History as Memory: The Influence of Time and Paradigm
16
4 The Manipulation of Memory and Political Power
23
SECTION II. STUDYING DEATH
37
PART I. CONSTRUCTING MEMORY: SURVIVORS AND THEORISTS
39
5 Primo Levi: Recording Memory and Teaching Humanity
43
6 Memory and Survival: A Reconsideration of the BettelheimDes Pres Debate
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