"Richard Koenigsberg's ideas on human violence and destructiveness are startling all the more for being self-evident once they have been absorbed. His ideas cut through conventional notions about culture and war, enabling us to understand human institutions in utterly new ways." —Professor Ruth Stein, New York University, author of For Love of the Father

Table of Contents Introduction

Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Library of Social Science (July 21, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 978-0-915042-23-4

About the Author

Richard A. Koenigsberg is an author and lecturer known for his research on collective forms of violence. Formerly a college professor, he has taught at Queens College in New York City, New York Institute of Technology, and at the New School for Social Research. His books include Hitler’s Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Fantasy and History; The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy; The Fantasy of Oneness and the Struggle to Separate. He created and edited a special issue of the journal Peace Review on the psychological interpretation of war.

Recently he presented keynote addresses at The Human Condition Series International Conference at Laurentian University, at a Symposium on “Roots of Evil” at Fordham University, at the Annual Holocaust Conference at Millersville University, and at the Annual Conference of the United World College of the American West. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He is the founder and editor of a highly acclaimed website, Ideologies of War, Genocide and Terror.