Epistemic conditions for genocide

Emmanuel C. Eze

pp. 115-129

in: John K. Roth (ed), Genocide and human rights, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Abstract

This chapter assumes that there is a widely shared definition of genocide.¹ What I explore are the deepest origins of that devastating crime. The claims I make about the relationships between philosophy and genocide—including the way in which I construe the idea of the philosophical—are likely to be more controversial than the usual definition of genocide, but I hope they will be persuasive nonetheless.