Taking Lives Genocide and State Power

Taking Lives: Genocide And State Power studies the social and political contexts of 20th century mass murder. Taking Lives asserts that genocide is not a sporadic or random event, nor is it necessarily linked to economic development, national psychosis or social decay. Genocide is a special sort of mass destruction conducted with the approval of the state apparatus. Life and death issues are uniquely fundamental, since they alone serve as a precondition for the examination of all other issues. Such concerns move us beyond abstract, formalist frameworks into new ways of viewing the social and political study of the human condition. Taking Lives is a fundamental work for political scientists, sociologists, and all those concerned with the states propensity toward evil. Taking Lives is highly recommended reading for all those interested in how holocausts could happen in Germany, Poland, Tibet, Cambodia, Ruwanda, and others in the last half of the 20th century.Horowitz, Irving Louis is the author of 'Taking Lives Genocide and State Power', published 2001 under ISBN 9780765808806 and ISBN 0765808803.