College Instructors May Receive a Free Copy of
NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL
Due to the overwhelming response we’ve received, we are providing college instructors with the opportunity to receive a free copy of Richard Koenigsberg’s groundbreaking NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL.
Because we are excited by this book and wish to make certain that it receives the widest possible circulation, we are pleased to provide for college instructors a FREE COPY when they ask their library order a copy.
From Dr. Koenigsberg's brief essay “War is Hell Created by Human Beings” that appears directly below
“Why have human beings created the ideology and institution of warfare? What are the sources of its appeal? Why have we created a world that revolves around shooting, bombing, slaughtering and torturing? What I convey in Nations Have the Right to Kill is a massive, overwhelming world of violence and destruction. Still, I pose the question: Why have human beings brought such a world into existence? What pleasures or gratifications do we derive through the existence of such a world?”
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P. S. Dr. Koenigsberg has written a short piece directly below on the implications of his book for social and cultural theory, which is followed by the official NEWS RELEASE for Nations Have the Right to Kill.
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL
“Richard Koenigsberg’s ideas cut through conventional notions about war, enabling us to understand human institutions in utterly new ways.”—Ruth Stein, Ph.D., New York University
“Dr. Koenigsberg’s is a message that anyone with an interest in changing the course of human history should reflect upon.”
—Lee Hall, JD
“A deep humanity and ethical urgency informs this book, which is full of original and provocative insights.”
—Walter A. Davis, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University
WAR IS HELL CREATED BY HUMAN BEINGS: Implications of Nations Have the Right to Kill for Social and Cultural Theory
By Richard A. Koenigsberg
Contemporary thought revolves around the idea that the self and thought is defined by culture, language and discourse. We are immersed in the symbolic order, which constitutes us to the core of our beings. Unanswered is the question: What is the source of discourse? Who created (and creates) the symbolic order?
The discourse of warfare resembles academic discourse. General William Sherman during the American Civil War declared that “war is hell,” proclaiming “You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm as against these terrible hardships of war. They are inevitable.” What Sherman did not say is that he himself—through his actions—acted to create the hell and horror of warfare.
Peter Berger in an early statement on the social construction of reality (1966) points to the “objectivity that marks the social world in human experience,” but then observes that despite the objectivity of the social world it does not thereby acquire “an ontological status apart from the human activity that produced it.” The social order, Berger, explains, is an “ongoing human production.”
Berger defines reification as the “apprehension of the products of human activity as if they were something other than human products,” noting that man is capable of “forgetting his authorship of the human world.” Contemporary thought—revolving around concepts such as culture, language, discourse and the symbolic order—has omitted the question of the authorship of the human world. It is a delusion to imagine that the identification of a discourse in relationship to a phenomenon represents an explanation.
Why have human beings created the ideology and institution of warfare? What are the sources of its appeal? I pose these questions in Nations Have the Right to Kill. Why have human beings brought into being a world that revolves around shooting, bombing, slaughtering and torturing? What I convey in Nations Have the Right to Kill is a massive, overwhelming world of violence and destruction. Still, I pose the question: Why have human beings brought such a world into existence? What pleasures or gratifications do we derive through the creation of such a world?
Simply RESPOND DIRECTLY TO THIS EMAIL INDICATING YOU ARE PLANNING TO ORDER A COPY and provide a SHIPPING ADDRESS to which you would like us to send your complimentary copy.
Please CLICK HERE FOR A FORM THAT CONTAINS COMPLETE INFORMATION SO THAT YOUR LIBRARY CAN ORDER NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL. Please forward or bring this form to your acquisition librarian, or use it to fill out your own LIBRARY REQUEST FORM.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Contact: Orion Anderson, Editor-in-Chief
LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, (718) 393-1104
oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com
DO NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL?
(New York, NY) Is war driven by motives such as the wish for conquest, territorial expansion, national defense or economic gain—as many people assume? Historians study the origins of specific political conflicts. However, is it possible that many forms of societal violence spring from a common source? In Nations Have the Right to Kill, political psychologist Dr. Richard Koenigsberg reveals the “hidden narratives” that give rise to warfare and genocide.
“Historians’ accounts of World War II,” Koenigsberg says, claim that “Hitler planned to create a master race” and attribute Germany’s invasions to his goal of “world domination.” But careful study of Hitler’s rhetoric suggests that other motives were at work. Nations Have the Right to Kill shows how Hitler waged war based on his wish for the annihilation—not only of the Jews—but of himself, his nation and the German people.
Hitler believed that Germany had the right to kill—to sacrifice soldiers and exterminate its enemies. Yet most people believe that nations possess the right to kill and to ask human beings to sacrifice their lives. Why are nation-states given the power to do what no individual or social group is permitted to do? In spite of the development of a global economy, human beings continue to bind themselves deeply to nation-states and to confer enormous power upon them. Why is this the case? This exciting, groundbreaking book explores a question whose answer may decide the future of the human race: Why do nations have the right to kill?
NATIONS HAVE THE RIGHT TO KILL:
Hitler, the Holocaust and War
Library of Social Science, Publishers
Price: $45.95 (hardbound). $39.99 (paperback).
Visit the website: www.nationshavetherighttokill.com.
About the Author: Richard Koenigsberg is a political psychologist who lectures throughout the world on the sources of collective forms of violence. Dr. Koenigsberg is the author of four books and numerous articles. His Hitler’s Ideology is considered by many to be the classic book on the topic. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research.
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