Binaries in battle : representations of division and conflict / edited by Marja Vuorinen, Noora Kotilainen and Aki-Mauri Huhtinen.

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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 277 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443868952
1443868957
1322215928
9781322215921

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303.3 23

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HM1121 .B56 2014

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Table of contents; introduction; part i; chapter one; chapter two; chapter three; part ii; chapter four; chapter five; part iii; chapter six; chapter seven; chapter eight; part iv; chapter nine; chapter ten; chapter eleven; contributors.

Summary: Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities ...

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Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities ...

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