Path to Collective Madness A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology

Name: Path to Collective Madness A Study in Social Order and Political Pathology
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ISBN: 9780275972219

ISBN-10: 0275972216

ISBN-13: 9780275972219

Edition: 2001

Authors: Dipak K. Gupta

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Why did the Rwandan genocide take place? How could parents feed their own children drinks laced with poison in Jonestown? As we see many parts of the world being engulfed in fratricidal frenzy, we wonder if it can happen in this country. Gupta examines contemporary cases of genocide and mass murder and seeks to explain why certain societies are more prone to these actions and others relatively immune. Gupta sees a dialectical tension between our two identities: the self and the collective. The end of the medieval period was marked by the emergence of individualism in Europe. With time, the march of individualism engulfed the entire Western world and permeated every aspect of its culture,…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 6/30/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Setting the Stage



"The Children Did Not Cry": The Face of Collective Madness



At the Great Divide of Identity: Individual and Collective



The Confusions of a Singular Worldview



Path to Collective Madness



Homo Collectivus: The Social Man



The Slippery Slope: From Identity to Madness



Madness or Not: The Ends of the Spectrum



In Search of Policy



Where There's a Will ...: Can Anything Be Done?



Collective Madness: Looking into the Future


Bibliography


Index