Ruth Anne Byrne Book order

Democracies abhor genocide and yet they perpetrate their own genocidal violence and then fail to acknowledge it. Drawing on the history of biological taxonomies, anthropological studies of kinship, and radical democratic theory, this work studies the root of the problem in the paradoxes of democratic inheritance and revolution, asking: What will it take to envision an anti- genocidal democracy?

Reorienting our approach to fundamental questions about human existence

A leading scholar in the psychology of thinking and reasoning argues that the counterfactual imagination--the creation of if only alternatives to reality-- is guided by the same principles that underlie rational thought.