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The Origins of Violence
Religion, History and
Genocide
John Docker
Pluto Press
First published 2008 by Pluto Press
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Copyright © John Docker 2008
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CONTENTS
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Genocide as ancient practice: chimpanzees, humans,
agricultural society
Raphaël Lemkin
Jane Goodall
Jared Diamond
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Hugh Brody
2. Genocide, and questioning of genocide, in the ancient
Greek world: Herodotus and Thucydides
Historical writing
Herodotus
Thucydides
Genocide and the honour of nations
Athens invades Sicily
The challenge to Athens
Conclusion: speaking to the future
3. Genocide, trauma and world upside down in ancient
Greek tragedy: Aeschylus and Euripides
Lemkin’s analytic method
Genocidal consciousness in Aeschylus’s
Agamemnon
Perpetrator and victim consciousness in Euripides’
Hecabe:
terror and trauma
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Andromache:
the slave as the stranger who disturbs
War, genocide, and female and child suffering:
The Women of Troy
Conclusion
4. Utopia and dystopia: Plato and Cicero’s
Republics
Plato
Cicero
Debating the virtues of empire, Rome, natural law
Conclusion: ‘The Dream of Scipio’
5. Victimology and genocide: the Bible’s Exodus,
Virgil’s
Aeneid
Victimology and genocidal violence:
Exodus and the
Aeneid
Exodus (and Joshua and Judges)
The
Aeneid
Narrative and counter-narrative: the costs of
conquest, colonization, empire
Women and men
Orientalism and European identity
Conclusion
6. Roman settler imperialism in Britain: narrative and
counter-narrative in Tacitus’s
Agricola
and
Germania
Affirmative narrative
Counter-narrative
Conclusion: a divided legacy
7. The honourable colonizer
Promoters and adventurers
Founding legends
International law, early modern English style
Biography and morality
The right to colonize
Honourable colonization in
The Tempest
Conclusion
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8. Was the Enlightenment the origin of the Holocaust?
Spinoza
Toland
Philosemitism and Islamophilia
Hume, Lyotard, Deleuze
Conclusion
Conclusion: Can there be an end to violence?
Notes
Index
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