ABSTRACT

To find out what the hell is going on with humans in this whole us/them, class/scapegoating, nationalism-gone-crazy department, and then figure out ways to stop the most appalling numbers of bodies from piling up in the charnel house does not seem to be a high priority for many philosophers, many social scientists, journalists, policy makers, thinking citizens anywhere. I know I’m hanging on to Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem and an old article by Bernard Nietschman, “The Third World War” from Cultural Survival Quarterly 11(3) for guidance and information…. But where is the shelf full of analysis and imaginative suggestions on how to cope with crimes against humanity?