After the Holocaust - The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction

Informationen zum Autor C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. A recipient of three awards from the Fulbright Commission, he is the author of more than a dozen books in moral psychology, most recently, Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation. Klappentext This book is a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Zusammenfassung The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study! C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Job, transitional space, and ruthlessness; 3. Holocaust testimonies: after the silence of Job; 4. Sisyphus, Levi, and Job at Auschwitz; 5. Conclusion: beyond the silence of Job.

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• Authors: C. Fred Alford, C. Fred (University of Maryland Alford, Frederick Alford
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521747066
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74706-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works