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9780295998466: Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)
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Editorial: University of Washington Press, 2016

Sinopsis

In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Améry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling.

Améry declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the “very first blow.” The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a “necessary evil.” Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is unthinkable?

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Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fairleigh Dickinson University, though he continues to teach one course a year. He is the co-author of Teen Voices From the Holy Land: Who Am I To You? (Prometheus Books, 2007) and has co-edited two other books with John Roth Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue (University of WA Press, 2012) and Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2008).

Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights), Claremont McKenna College. Roth has published hundreds of articles and reviews and authored, co-authored, or edited more than fifty books, including The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (Oxford University Press, 2010), Encountering the Stranger: A Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue (University of Washington Press, 2012), Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide (Paragon House, 2012), and The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities (Oxford University Press, 2015). He is a co-editor of our Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies

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Editorial
University of Washington Press
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0295998466
ISBN 13 
9780295998466
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
245
Editor
Grob Leonard, Roth John K.
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