CSPAN3 Lectures In History January 25, 2015
Obviously a totalizing effect. When hitler talks about the destruction of the jews, that is clearly the language of total war. I talked to you about human rights. The way in which allied leaders promised that human rights would be secured everywhere in the world. Also a total guarantee. Other phrases that have a total izing quality are the terms Unconditional Surrender implying to had to be a total victory and no armistice. But i want to talk about a specific trope in the language of total war and that is the trope of revenge. Revenge, by its very nature, is a sort of ratchet. Somebody commits...