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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Swaan, Abram de, 1942- author.     Subjects     State-sponsored terrorism.     State-sponsored terrorism -- Psychological aspects.     Mass murder.     Mass murder -- Psychological aspects.     Mass murderers -- Psychology.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Swaan, Abram de, 1942- author.       by title:      The killing compartm...         MARC Display

The killing compartments : the mentality of mass murder / Abram de Swaan. by Swaan, Abram de, 1942- author. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2015. Subjects State-sponsored terrorism.   State-sponsored terrorism -- Psychological aspects.   Mass murder.   Mass murder -- Psychological aspects.   Mass murderers -- Psychology. ISBN:  9780300208726 (alk. paper) : 0300208723 (alk. paper) Description:  xi, 332 pages ; 25 cm Contents:  Introduction -- Ordinary perpetrators and modernity : the situationist consensus -- Widening circles of identification and disidentification -- The transformations of violence in human history -- Rwanda : self-destructive destruction -- Genocidal regimes and the compartmentalization of society -- The four modes of mass annihilation : case histories -- Genocidal perpetrators and the compartmentalization of personality -- Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  The twentieth century was among the bloodiest in the history of humanity. Untold millions were slaughtered. How people are enrolled in the service of evil is a question that continues to bedevil. In this trenchant book, Abram de Swaan offers a taxonomy of mass violence that focuses on the rank-and-file perpetrators, examining how murderous regimes recruit them and create what De Swaan calls the "killing compartments" that make possible the worst abominations without apparent moral misgiving, without a sense of personal responsibility, and, above all, without pity.--Provided by publisher   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 327.117 Sw Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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