Essays about: "Lior Becker"

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  1. 1. The Devils of History : Understanding Mass-violence Through the Thinking of Horkheimer and Adorno – The Case of Cambodia 1975-1979

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Hugo Valentin-centrum

    Author : Lior Becker; [2016]
    Keywords : genocide; cambodia; khmer; khmer rouge; pol pot; frankfurt school; dialectics; adorno; horkheimer; folkmord;

    Abstract : Why does mass-violence happen at all? This paper takes the first steps to establish a model to answer this question and explain extreme mass-violence as a phenomenon. This paper seeks to fill a gap in the field of research, in which models exist to explain the phenomenon of violence, with cases of genocide being seen as problems or exceptions, and as such researched as individual cases rather than as part of a wider phenomenon. READ MORE