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States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / St anley Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001 [Reprinted 2012].Description: xvi, 344 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0745616577
  • 0745623921 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.9 22
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at wo rk: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memori es, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering - - 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up w ounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at wo rk: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memori es, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering - - 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up w ounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?

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