{"product_id":"the-genocide-paradox-democracy-and-generational-time-hardback-9781531503253","title":"The Genocide Paradox; Democracy and Generational Time (Hardback) 9781531503253","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Genocide Paradox\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eDemocracy and Generational Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnne O'Byrne (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531503253\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.502 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\u003eWe regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the \u003ci\u003egenos\u003c\/i\u003e on which nations are said to be founded? This is an urgent question for democracies. We value the mode of being in time that anchors us in the past and in the future, that is, among those who have been and those who might yet be. If the \u003ci\u003egenos \u003c\/i\u003eis a group constituted by this generational time, the \u003ci\u003edemos\u003c\/i\u003e was invented as the anti-\u003ci\u003egenos\u003c\/i\u003e, with no criterion of inheritance and instead only occurring according to the interruption of revolutionary time. Insofar as the \u003ci\u003edemos\u003c\/i\u003e persists, we experience it as a sort of \u003ci\u003egenos\u003c\/i\u003e, for example, the democratic nation state. As a result, democracies are caught is a bind, disavowing \u003ci\u003egenos-\u003c\/i\u003ethinking while cherishing the temporal forms of \u003ci\u003egenos\u003c\/i\u003e-life; they abhor genocidal violence but perpetuate and disguise it. This is the genocide paradox. \u003cbr\u003e O'Byrne traces the problem through our commitment to existential categories from Aristotle to the life taxonomies of Linneaus and Darwin, through anthropologies of kinship that tether us to the social world, the shortfalls of ethical theory, into the history of democratic theory and the defensive tactics used by real existing democracies when it came to defining genocide for the U.N. Genocide Convention. She argues that, although models of democracy all make room for contestation, they fail to grasp its generational structure or acknowledge the generational content of our lives. They cultivate ignorance of the contingency and precarity of the relations that create and sustain us. The danger of doing so is immense. It leaves us unprepared for confronting democracy's deficits and its struggle to entertain multiple temporalities. In addition, it leaves us unprepared for understanding the relation between \u003ci\u003edemos\u003c\/i\u003e and violence, and the ability of good enough citizens to tolerate the slow-burning destruction of marginalized peoples. \u003ci\u003eWhat will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?\u003c\/i\u003e\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\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Democracy and Genos   1\u003cbr\u003e Generational Being, 10 • Genocidal Violence, 18 • Ontology\u003cbr\u003e and Judgment—On Method, 23 • A Note on Genos, 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eGenos   33\u003cbr\u003e Introduction, 33 • The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of\u003cbr\u003e Order, 36 • Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 • Darwin:\u003cbr\u003e Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 • The Unstable Clade\u003cbr\u003e and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eHow Much Kin Does a Person Need?   64\u003cbr\u003e Introduction, 64 • Absolute Belonging: Atavus and\u003cbr\u003e Beyond, 64 • The Life of Blood, 73 • The Evidence\u003cbr\u003e of DNA, 77 • Genealogical Th inking, 81 • Creating Kin, 93 •\u003cbr\u003e Genocide as Aenocide, 98\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eWhat's Wrong with Genocide?   103\u003cbr\u003e Introduction, 103 • Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 •\u003cbr\u003e Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 • Genocidal Life:\u003cbr\u003e The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 • Ontology and Politics, 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eDemocracy of Generational Beings   126\u003cbr\u003e The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 •\u003cbr\u003e Genos and Cosmos, 131 • Genos and Demos, 136 •\u003cbr\u003e The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e: The Antigenocidal Democracy   151\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  165\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  167\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  203\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  221\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":52619264459032,"sku":"9781531503253","price":78.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-genocide-paradox-democracy-and-generational-time-hardback-9781531503253","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}