{"product_id":"living-in-death-genocide-and-its-functionaries-hardback-9780823297856","title":"Living in Death; Genocide and Its Functionaries (Hardback) 9780823297856","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiving in Death\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGenocide and Its Functionaries\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRichard Rechtman (Author), Lindsay Turner (Translated by), Veena Das (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823297856\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 November 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e192 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 2 cm, 0.372 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is their consciousness? Do they not feel horror or compassion?\u003cbr\u003e Richard Rechtman's \u003ci\u003eLiving in Death \u003c\/i\u003eoffers new answers to a question that has haunted us at least since the Holocaust. For Rechtman, it is not ideologies that kill, but people. This book descends into the ordinary life of people who execute hundreds every day, the same way others go to the office. Bringing philosophical sophistication to the ordinary, the book constitutes an anthropology of mass killers.\u003cbr\u003e Turning away from existing psychological and philosophical accounts of genocide's perpetrators, Rechtman instead explores the conditions under which administering death becomes a job like any other. Considering Cambodia, Rwanda, and other mass killings, \u003ci\u003eLiving in Death\u003c\/i\u003e draws on a vast array of archival research, psychological theory, and anecdotes from the author's clinical work with refugees and former participants in genocide. Rechtman mounts a compelling case for reframing and refocusing our attempts to explain—and preempt—acts of mass torture, rape, killing, and extermination.\u003cbr\u003e What we must see, Rechtman argues, is that for \u003ci\u003egenocidaires \u003c\/i\u003e(those who carry out acts that are or approach genocide), there is nothing extraordinary, unusual, or world-historical about their actions. On the contrary, they are preoccupied with the same mundane things that characterize any other job: interactions with colleagues, living conditions, a drink and a laugh at the end of the day. To understand this is to understand how things came to be the way they are—and how they might be different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword by Veena Das\u003c\/b\u003e   vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. Those Who Kill\u003c\/b\u003e   13\u003cbr\u003e The Confessions   14 • The Killers' Testimonies   19\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. Monsters: Cruelty and Jouissance\u003c\/b\u003e   29\u003cbr\u003e Fictions and Figures of Evil   32 • The Archaic Remnants of Evil   39\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. Ordinary Man and His Pathologies\u003c\/b\u003e   51\u003cbr\u003e Banality and Mediocrity: The Ordinary According\u003cbr\u003e to Arendt   54 • When Ordinary Men Become\u003cbr\u003e Killers   65 • Blind Obedience and Submission to\u003cbr\u003e Authority   73 • The Pathologies of the Ordinary Man   81\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4. The Administration of Death\u003c\/b\u003e   92\u003cbr\u003e To Make Die and Not to Let Live   97 • The Khmer \u003cbr\u003e Rouge Administration of Death, 1975–79   102 •\u003cbr\u003e From Genocide to Genocidaires   118\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. The Ordinary Life of Genocidaires\u003c\/b\u003e   130\u003cbr\u003e The Executioner   134 • Forms of Life and Ordinary\u003cbr\u003e Lives   141 • The Neighborhood, or the Elementary\u003cbr\u003e Unity of the Genocidal Form of Life   148\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e   173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e   195\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580465180952,"sku":"9780823297856","price":75.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/living-in-death-genocide-and-its-functionaries-hardback-9780823297856","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}