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[A-List] Lecture on Civilization and Self-Destruction

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Lecture by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph. D. at the
Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University
March 10, 2005, 12 Noon

CIVILIZATION AND SELF-DESTRUCTION
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR AND GENOCIDE
   
        Location: Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution
        George Mason University, Arlington Campus
        3330 N. Washington Boulevard, Truland Building, Room 555
        Time: March 10 (Thursday), Noon-1:30 PM
        For further information, call 703-993-1300
We imagine that we know what war is, but do we really? Some say that war is "human nature." But is there a gene that instructs Homo sapiens to build tanks and atom bombs, salute officers, and to march in unison?
 
In this lecture, Dr. Richard A. Koenigsberg, author of Hitler's Ideology: A Study in Psychoanalytic Sociology, will show how societies sacrifice human lives and material wealth in order to demonstrate devotion to a sacred ideal.
 
Koenigsberg's lecture will reveal how war is destruction undertaken in the name of that which we love. Indeed, killing and dying in warfare is the "pledge of allegiance" in its most radical form. Societies require soldiers everywhere to vow "obedience unto death."
 
In waging war, nation-states require that soldiers give over their bodies and souls in the name of defending the sacred ideal. The Holocaust was ultimately another side of this terrible equation, in which Jews, too, were compelled to give over their bodies and souls to the vengeful nation-state.
 

Richard Koenigsberg soon will embark on a campus-wide lecture series on the Psychology of Political Violence. See:
He currently is developing new material and will be happy to share his research and insights with your students in a classroom or seminar setting.
 
If you are teaching on topics such as war, genocide, the Holocaust, Hitler and Nazism, and would like to explore the possibility of a presentation by Dr. Koenigsberg (at no charge), please contact Orion Anderson at 718-393-1104 or libraryofsocialscience@earthlink.net
 
Richard Koenigsberg has authored numerous books and papers on the psychology of war and genocide, Hitler and the Holocaust, and has lectured extensively on these topics.
 
He recently was keynote speaker at HOLOCAUST EDUCATION WEEK, the largest Holocaust event in the world. For a description (and photo) of his presentation, please visit:
 
Presently he is Editor of a Special Issue of the journal PEACE REVIEW on "The Psychological Interpretation of War."

To read Richard Koenigsberg's paper, DYING FOR ONE'S COUNTRY: The Logic of War and Genocide

PLEASE CLICK HERE or visit:

http://home.earthlink.net/~libraryofsocialscience/online_pubs.htm

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