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We (Tr.im team) work to make sure all our stakeholders adhere to our terms and conditions and our general safety ... Rank: #2441192 in BooksPublished on: 2011-04-05Released on: 2011-04-05Original language: EnglishNumber of items: 1Dimensions: 8.44" h x .90" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds Binding: Hardcover256 pages 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.Suggestion Posed ... Remains a SuggestionBy Loves the ViewIn his Preface, Russell Jacoby says that his book is "putting together histories and reflections" to suggest that likeness breeds greater malice than "the other". The subtitle indicates that root of violence will be explored.From Rome's civil wars (p. 65, erroneously cited as beginning with Caesar - while the first was Sula) to the French Catholics and the Huguenots to the Hutus and the Tutsis, Jacoby notes the brutal persecution of populations united in language, appearance and social customs. For every atrocity mentioned, there are large and powerful counter examples such as the decades of the Mongol campaign across Asia, the Rape of Nanking or the enslavement of new world natives and Africans....just to name only a few..A large part of Jacoby's argument, that similarity provokes more violence than the "other", relies on the Holocaust. 20 pages (of this 158 pp book) are devoted to how Jews, but for religion, were indistinguishable from non-Jewish Germans. While the cultural integration is persuasively argued, its link to hatred and ultimatly, violence, is not.Jacoby's chapter on more personal similarities breeding more contempt (than "the other") uses primarily mythical and literary examples, such as Dorian Gray and Narsissus. For every mention of twins as a curse (evidence being some tribes where the twins and the mother are killed) there are, surely, at least as many unnamed tribes where the twins are prized. Similarly, the highest profile examples of fratricide rely on examples such as Cain and Abel and Romulus and Remus.There is a long discussion of what Freud called "the narcissism of minor differences" and how this effects the relationships of men and women. While this (along with 6 pages of offensive material from Otto Weininger) helps to develop the concept of women and Jews as being "other", it says more about the roots of sexism and anti-Semitism than the "root of violence".One of the most intriguing topics was that of Rene Girard on "mimetic rivalry", which is described as the fear of losing one's self by mimicking another entity. The example is Islamic terrorists seeking to keep their culture pure from western values and behavior. It is the "resemblance embitters them". (p. 154).While the primary title "Bloodlust" and the cover graphic sensationalize the topic, the role of proximity, "blood" and culture in large scale violence is a serious and important area of study. Jacoby brings together some interesting material but, the topic remains in need of a better book.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.CompellingBy Hugo JohnsonJacoby's starting point is Freud's observation of the Narcissism of Minor Differences. We love ourselves (hence the narcissism), and what threatens that self-love most are not things that are alien to us, but things that are almost like us, but not quite.This theme guides Jacoby's journeys through history (mostly European). I especially enjoyed his sections on anti-semitism, and I think the whole Freudian thing explains a lot here. The paradox that Jacoby identifies is that bigots had to mark Jews with things like the star or special garb, not because they were alien, but because they were almost exactly like the other Europeans. Without the star, no one could have told that they were Jewish. They were almost fully assimilated, and one of the ironies of National Socialism has long been that there were many Germans who thought of themselves as good German protestants with a Jewish grandmother who suddenly with the rise of Adolf Hitler found themselves to be enemies of the state.I was less convinced with Jacoby's final chapter, though it is very interesting, where he links the fear of Jews to the fear of women. The rite of circumcision, argues Jacoby, was viewed by outsiders as a form of castration, which threatened a destruction of masculinity. Thus anti-semitism and misogyny are ultimately linked, and are at the root of a lot of what drives humans to violence. Like I said, provocative, but a little tenuous in my mind.4 of 6 people found the following review helpful.Jacoby underestimates the role of differenceBy Greg DesiletJacoby's thesis seems to labor under a colossal confusion. He argues that the factors of likeness, similarity, and familiarity give rise to greater hatred and violence than factors of strangeness, foreignness, and otherness. He proceeds to cite as an example the fact that most German Jews were indistinguishable from German non-Jews but that this did not stop the Holocaust. On the level of personal likenesses he cites the example of certain African tribes who kill twins at birth because the identity of the two is believed to be the work of evil spirits. Similarly, he cites examples of fratricide from mythology and literature. For Jacoby, the uncanniness of the similar and the identical serves as a fundamental instigating factor for deadly violence. Those who are most like us become of the objects of our greatest violence.However, it is hard to imagine how Jacoby believes this line of argument can possibly trump the role of difference in accounting for the instances of violence he recounts. In every case of deadly violence--even in cases of suicide--it is impossible to rule out a factor of difference as the crucial factor in accounting for the violence. In the case of twins, for example, one twin is "different" from the other because there are TWO not ONE. The fact that there are two which appear identical invites the process of finding--and failing that--imagining a point of difference. One twin, for example, may be perceived as the "evil" twin--even where no evidence for such "evil" may exist.Wherever similarity and familiarity appear between persons and groups, the human impulse to find difference may be triggered. The motive for this impulse derives from the necessity for finding explanations for whatever may appear to be wrong or problematic about self, tribe, society, nation, or world. When no obvious source of pollution of self, tribe, society, nation, or world stands out or presents itself to public consensus then the pollution, the difference, is imagined to be hiding within the group or the self.The practice of finding scapegoats--those who conceal a difference of some kind--where no genuine outward difference can be discovered is an ancient ritual in human community and human relations. It often leads to unwarranted ostracism, genocide, exorcism, murder, and even suicide and is consistent with the thesis that difference, whether real or imagined, is the origin or at least the real object of violence.The significant error Jacoby makes resides in believing that fratricide does not result from real or imagined perception of difference. And yet he his right to point out that "civil" conflicts and conflicts between blood relations are the most intense and violent. This extreme violence, however, is due to the greater intensity of the horror of discovering the "enemy," the "other," lies within instead of outside the circle of community. This discovery gives rise to a sense of betrayal, which is always felt to be more odious than a threat or attack from the outside. It would seem there is no way to prevent these notions of difference and other from intruding into any assessment of the motives for violence.Humans seek difference as the answer to what is wrong. This difference is often found or invented in a neighbor because of the neighbor's proximity--not the neighbor's similarity. And if it should turn out that neighbors are in some way remarkably different in an obvious and visual way, turning them into the scapegoat becomes even easier. But obvious visual and behavioral cues of difference are by no means necessary in order for individuals or groups to find difference lurking in even the most similar of other individuals or groups. In short, Jacoby appears to seriously underestimate the extent of the difficulty in theorizing the roots of violence apart from notions of "other" and "difference."See all 7 customer reviews... YeppudaaONLNE ZLEME LSTES Descendants of the Sun Oh My Venus Cheer Up Hyde Jekyll and Me Hi! School: Love On Pinocchio Heirs Shine or Go Crazy Lee min Hoo uzak dou asya Projekt Walschutzaktionen ProWal Nr. 45000 William Da Silva Singapore The measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable of the creatures of this Earth. Lets treat all sentient beings ... -. MP3 . ... Massacre at Bziers - Wikipedia The Massacre at Bziers refers to the slaughter of the inhabitants during the sack of Bziers an event that took place on 22 July 1209 and was the first major ... Guitar chords and lyrics made easy - gChords.net Search guitar chords and lyrics of your favorite songs easily so you sing/play the best versions. Optimized for Smartphones and Tablets. Completely free! 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