Reflections on Modernity, Civilization, and Genocide

Although there have been thousands of books written about the destruction of the European Jews, until recently few have been devoted to the problem of genocide per se. At the 1983 convention of the American Political Science Association, a session on genocide featuring papers by a number of leading authorities drew an audience of no more than ten. It is this writer's thesis that the relative silence on the subject of genocide stems from the unwillingness of both the scholars and their audie...