States of Denial Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering

Name: States of Denial Knowing about Atrocities and Suffering
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ISBN: 9780745623924

ISBN-10: 0745623921

ISBN-13: 9780745623924

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stanley Cohen

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This text offers a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical states of depression, to media images of suffering.

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 3/5/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.80" wide x 8.90" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements



The Elementary Forms Of Denial



Knowing and Not-Knowing: The Psychology of Denial



Denial at Work: Mechanisms and Rhetorical Devices



Accounting for Atrocities: Perpetrators and Officials



Blocking Out the Past: Personal Memories, Public Histories



Bystander States



Images of Suffering



Appeals: Outrage Into Action



Digging Up Graves, Opening Wounds: Acknowledging the Past



Acknowledgement Now



Loose Ends.Notes.Index