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"To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term, since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately raises the questions: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of another group just because they are members of that other group - men, women, children? What sense can we make of genocide? The very meaning of sense threatens to disintegrate." "Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em! is the first systematic attempt to understand what, up until now, has seemed inexplicable. Bruce Wilshire uncovers what seems to be the deepest root of the genocidal urge: disgust and dread in the face of abounding, fecund life itself - swarming, creeping, scurrying, unboundable, and uncontrollable. If his claims about the genocidal urge are true, genocide and terrorism are the ultimate antiecology."--Jacket.

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