The Origin of Violence
During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a different name and died in 1942. Returning to France, he finds that the memory of the photograph refuses to leave him. He decides to embark on a search for its subject, which takes him to the Buchenwald archives, to the heart of the Nazi machine, but more disturbingly, draws him into the dark heart of his own family. Eventually, he is brought face-to-face with his own capacity for violence. A subtle, moving book, The Origins of Violence shows the limitless ways in which humans inflict harm on each other, and how individual people, not societies, are the perpetrators
1 online resource (225 pages)
9781847653239, 1847653235
1039733264
Introduction: THE TYRANT'S BLOODY ROBE; 1 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: SOS VIOLENCE; 2 Allegro moderato
Adagio: FEAR THY NEIGHBOUR AS THYSELF!; 3 Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile: 'A BLOOD-DIMMED TIDE IS LOOSED'; 4 Presto: ANTINOMIES OF TOLERANT REASON; 5 Molto adagio
Andante: TOLERANCE AS AN IDEOLOGICAL CATEGORY; 6 Allegro: DIVINE VIOLENCE; Epilogue: ADAGIO; Notes; Bibliography; Index