In Betrayals and Treason Nachman Ben-Yehuda identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these violations, all within numerous cases across time, place, and cultures. Betrayals do not just lie in the eyes of the beholder, completely relative. While the very idea of betrayals is a social construct, underlying it is a universal structure of violations of both trust and loyalty. Whenever this structure materializes, the label "betrayal" is invoked and applied.
"I Did Not Betray” -- Part One -- Introduction: Violating Trust and Loyalty -- Violating Trust and Loyalty: A Typology -- Violating Trust and Loyalty: Categories and Cases -- Part Two -- Treason -- Violating Trust and Loyalty During World War II: Part -- Violating Trust and Loyalty During World War II: Part 2 -- Radio Traitors: Lord Haw-Haw and Tokyo Rose -- Intellectual Betrayal: Ezra Pound and Knut Hamsun -- Edward VIII: A Traitor Monarch? -- The Case of Malinali Tenepal—Malinche -- Treason in Judaism and Israel -- Conclusion
In this book, the author identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these violations, all within numerous cases across time, place, and cultures.
This book identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty, and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these violations, all within numerous cases across time, place, and cultures.
Über den Autor
Nachman Ben-Yehuda is professor of sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Specializing in the study of deviance, he graduated from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Deviance and Moral Boundaries, The Politics and Morality of Deviance, Political Assassinations by Jews, Moral Panics (with Erich Goode), and The Masada Myth.
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This book identifies the universal structure of betrayals as the violation of trust and loyalty, and charts the different manifestations and constructions of these violations, all within numerous cases across time, place, and cultures.
