"Dying for One's Country"
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007, 7pm
Dear Colleague,
Richard Koenigsberg will be presenting at the upcoming Columbia University Seminar on Death on December 12.
For more information, please call 718-393-1081.
The Columbia University Seminars were founded more than sixty years ago as a meeting ground for cross-disciplinary and inter-institutional inquiries, bringing together academia, policy makers and community practitioners.
The Seminar on Death has participants representing many fields, including medicine, social work, nursing, psychology, anthropology, religion, art history, ethics and law. As required of University Seminars, a rapporteur is in attendance and takes notes which are deposited in the manuscript collection at the University's Butler Library. For more information on the Columbia University Seminar on Death please CLICK
The title of Dr. Koenigsberg' s presentation is "Dying for One's Country: The Soldier as Sacrificial Victim." Please see a description of his talk below.
For more information, please call 718-393-1081.
DYING FOR ONE'S COUNTRY:
The Soldier and Sacrificial Death
Presentation by Richard Koenigsberg, Ph.D. at the Columbia University Seminar on Death, Wednesday, December 12, at 7pm.
Ordinarily, death is conceived as a bad thing. The death of a soldier in battle is a bad thing, but also a good thing. People revere the soldier for the death that he has suffered on our behalf: he has sacrificed his life for his country. In order to wage war, a nation must be willing to "suffer casualties"- -to send people into battle where they may be killed. A nation's willingness to sacrifice its soldiers testifies to the fact that one's society is devoted to its sacred ideals. The death of the soldier in battle performs a validating function.
Richard Koenigsberg received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. New editions of his books are about to be released: Hitler's Ideology: Embodied Metaphor, Fantasy and History; The Nation: A Study in Ideology and Fantasy; and The Fantasy of Oneness and the Struggle to Separate: Towards a Psychology of Culture. He is Director of the LIBRARY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, a company that promotes and publicizes scholarly books and conferences.
If you are able to attend the seminar--or unable to attend--please read Dr.
Koenigsberg' s online publications:
"The Soldier as Sacrificial Victim:
Awakening from the Nightmare of History"
"As the Soldier Dies, So Does the Nation Come Alive:
The Sacrificial Meaning of Warfare"
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