Contract of Mutual Indifference - Political Philosophy After the Holocaust

Informationen zum Autor Norman Geras was Professor of Government at the University of Manchester Klappentext Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. Zusammenfassung Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras’s argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface by Oliver KammForewordPart I 1 The Contract of Mutual IndifferenceI 'Consider that this has been'II A Different Kind of ContractIII The Duty to Bring AidIV An Open Structure of ValuePart II2 Socialist Hope in the Shadow of Catastrophe3 Progress Without Foundations?4 Marxists before the HolocaustBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Norman Geras, Geras Norman
• Assisted by: Kamm Oliver (Introduction)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781526104755
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0475-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Critical Theory and Contempora; Manchester University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, The Holocaust, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Political science and theory, Human rights, civil rights, Ethical issues and debates