O'Byrne The Genocide Paradox

Democracy and Generational Time
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5315-0328-4
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Democracies abhor genocide and yet they perpetrate their own genocidal violence and then fail to acknowledge it. Drawing on the history of biological taxonomies, anthropological studies of kinship, and radical democratic theory, this work studies the root of the problem in the paradoxes of democratic inheritance and revolution, asking: What will it take to envision an anti-genocidal democracy?

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Byrne, Anne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Democracy and Genos 1
Generational Being, 10 • Genocidal Violence, 18 • Ontology
and Judgment—On Method, 23 • A Note on Genos, 31

1 Genos 33
Introduction, 33 • The Tree of Porphyry: The Pleasure of
Order, 36 • Linnaeus: The Sane Systematizer, 40 • Darwin:

Heredity and the Temporal Order, 48 • The Unstable Clade
and the Naturalization of Generational Being, 57

2 How Much Kin Does a Person Need? 64
Introduction, 64 • Absolute Belonging: Atavus and
Beyond, 64 • The Life of Blood, 73 • The Evidence
of DNA, 77 • Genealogical Th inking, 81 • Creating Kin, 93 •
Genocide as Aenocide, 98

3 What’s Wrong with Genocide? 103
Introduction, 103 • Genocide and the End of Ethics, 107 •
Genocide beyond the End of Ethics, 114 • Genocidal Life:

The Case of Sexual Violence, 117 • Ontology and Politics, 119

4 Democracy of Generational Beings 126
The Democratic Paradox and the Genocide Paradox, 126 •
Genos and Cosmos, 131 • Genos and Demos, 136 •
The Problem of Time for Democracies, 141

Conclusion: The Antigenocidal Democracy 151

Acknowledgments 165

Notes 167

Bibliography 203

Index 221

Über Autor(innen)

O'Byrne Anne:
Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy.Anne O’Byrne is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. She is the author of Natality and Finitude (Indiana, 2010), coeditor of Logics of Genocide (Routledge, 2020), and translator or cotranslator of four books by Jean-Luc Nancy.