Sociocide
Reflections on Today's Wars
1st Edition
Published on 3. November 2020
100 pages
978-1-9787-8776-6 (ISBN)
Description
Wars have a destructive impact on society. The violence in the first case is domicide, in the second urbicide, in the third genocide, and in the fourth, the book introduces a neologism, sociocide, the killing of society. Through the lens of this neologism, Keith Doubt provides persuasive evidence of the social, political, and human consequences of today's wars in countries such as Bosnia and Iraq. Sociocide: Reflections on Today's Wars rigorously formulates, develops, and applies the notion of sociocide as a Weberian ideal type to contemporary wars. Drawing upon sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and literature, Doubt analyzes war crimes, scapegoating, and torture and concludes by examining capitalism in the face of the coronavirus pandemic as a sociocidal force. Embedded in the humanistic tradition and informed by empirical science, this book provides a clear conceptual account of today's wars, one that is objective and moral, critical and humanistic.
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Keith Doubt is professor emeritus at Wittenberg University.
Content
Chapter One On Sociocide
Chapter Two Sociocide and the US Invasion of Iraq
Chapter Three The Ethical Requirement of Burial, Humanity, and its Transgression: Classical Anthropology Applied
Chapter Four The Iron Cage of Surreality: A Foucaultian Critique of the Dayton Accords
Chapter Five Social Order Without Scapegoating: A Critique of René Girard
Chapter Six The Reality of Torture and Sociocide
Chapter Seven The Lure of the Pariah: Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. DuBois, and Franz Fanon
Chapter Eight The Spirit of Capitalism in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Chapter Nine How an Apology Works: Exit from Sociocide
Chapter Two Sociocide and the US Invasion of Iraq
Chapter Three The Ethical Requirement of Burial, Humanity, and its Transgression: Classical Anthropology Applied
Chapter Four The Iron Cage of Surreality: A Foucaultian Critique of the Dayton Accords
Chapter Five Social Order Without Scapegoating: A Critique of René Girard
Chapter Six The Reality of Torture and Sociocide
Chapter Seven The Lure of the Pariah: Hannah Arendt, W. E. B. DuBois, and Franz Fanon
Chapter Eight The Spirit of Capitalism in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic
Chapter Nine How an Apology Works: Exit from Sociocide
