The future of prejudice
Subtitle: psychoanalysis and the prevention of prejudice
By: edited by Henri Parens ... [et al.]
Contributors: Parens, Henri, 1928-
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield; Jason Aronson, Inc.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780765704603; 9780765704610
Subjects: Prejudices
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-311) and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Shashi Tharoor; title: Prejudice : conceptual and universal dynamics. From unmentalized xenophobia to messianic sadism : some reflections on the phenomenology of prejudice / Salman Akhtar ; Toward understanding prejudice : benign and malignant / Henri Parens ; Terrorism, fundamentalism, and nihilism : analyzing the dilemmas of modernity / James Gilligan; title: Developmental aspects of prejudice. The development of prejudice : an attachment theory hypothesis explaining its ubiquity / Peter Fonagy and Anna Higgitt ; The roots of prejudice : findings from observational research / Henri Parens ; Family as the link between individual and the social origins of prejudice / David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff ; The roots of prejudice in family life and its political significance as discerned in a study of Slobodan Milosevic / Hans-Jürgen Wirth; title: Malignant prejudice : specific kinds. Anti-Black racism and the conception of whiteness / Forrest M. Hamer ; Contemporary anti-semitism : variations on an ancient theme / Ira Brenner ; Religious prejudice and the formation of Mormon and non-Mormon selves in Utah : a view from a phenomenological anthropology / David Clark Knowlton. Panel: Aspects of prejudice in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict : a brief introductory comment / Nadia Ramzy ; Prejudice between Palestinians and Israelis / George Awad ; Belief systems, identity, and the function of prejudice in Israeli politics / Carlo Strenger; title: Prejudice : studies and prevention strategies. A brief history of prejudice studies / Elisabeth Young-Bruehl ; The prejudices of everyday life, with observations from field trials / Stuart W. Twemlow and Frank Sacco ; Germans and Israeli Jews : hidden emotional dynamics / Hanni Mann-Shalvi ; Malignant prejudice : guidelines toward its prevention / Henri Parens