Cruelty: A Book About Us

Prelude
	Defining Cruelty: Dictionary Definitions (Fail)
Preface and Author’s Notes
	Preface: Firefly Death Necklaces
	Author’s Notes: An Unorthodox Approach
Acknowledgments
Contents
1: What the Scholars Owe Us
2: Professors of Cruelty: Some Anxieties About Being Us
	Part One: Anxieties About Being Human
	Part Two: Anxieties About Not Being Human or About Being Non-human
	Part Three: Anxieties About Having These Conversations
3: Himmler, Himmler’s Canary, and Us
	Round 1: Aberrations, Madness, and the Unexpected
	Round Two: One of Us, the Ordinary, the Banal
	Round Three: The Extreme
4: What Do We Say About Cruelty? Patterns of Responses to the Questions “What Is Cruelty?” or “What Causes Cruelty?”
5: I’m a Good Person, Really!
6: Thin Skin and Faith
7: What’s the Difference Between a Rutabaga and a Pig?
8: Kaleidoscope Mirrors: Response and Responsiveness
	Coercive Techniques
9: The Perfect Sheep
10: A Mistake
11: A Proposal: Learning to Perceive
Correction to: Cruelty
	Correction to:
Appendix A: Poems and Prose—Cruelty Through the Lyrical, Visceral, and Metaphorical
	Chapter 1
		Excerpt from “The Wreck of Time: Taking Our Century’s Measure”
	Chapter 2
		Excerpt from “The Measure of our Days,” the Third Volume of Auschwitz and After, Charlotte Delbo’s Memoir on Surviving Auschwitz
	Chapter 3
		Musee des Beaux Arts
	Chapter 5
		Me viene, hay días, una gana ubérrima
	Chapter 7
		The Tyger
	Chapter 10
		Excerpt from “Keaton”
	Chapter 11
		Excerpt from Matthew 13
Appendix B: The Reader’s Guide: Some Basics, Some Notes, and Where to Look Next.
Bibliography
Author Index
Book List Index
Titles Index
Subject Index