{"product_id":"living-in-death-9780823297856","title":"Living in Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving in Death\u003c\/i\u003e 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 both an anthropology of mass killers and a challenge to the conditions that make genocide possible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406164697431,"sku":"9780823297856","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823297856.jpg?v=1730494756","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-in-death-9780823297856","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}