Failures of Ethics - Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities

A study of human failings in the overriding of moral sensibilities which lead to atrocities such as the Holocaust and other genocides.

List of contents

• Prologue: The Thread


• Part One: Protesting Failures


• 1: The Failures of Ethics


• 2: Rape as Torture and the Responsibility to Protect


• 3: Philosophy and the 'Logic' of Racism


• 4: 'You Shall Not Murder'


• 5: God's Failures


• Part Two: Resisting Failures


• 6: The Holocaust's Impact on Christian-Jewish Relations


• 7: The Effects of Genocide


• 8: What Has Been Learned?


• 9: The Politics of Testimony


• 10: Death and Meaning


• Epilogue: The Right Side of History?

About the author

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights Leadership) at Claremont McKenna College. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, he has published hundreds of articles and authored, co-authored, or edited more than fifty books, including Approaches to Auschwitz, Ethics During and After the Holocaust, and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. He has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Koerner Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2012 he received the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for Holocaust Studies and Research.

Summary

A study of human failings in the overriding of moral sensibilities which lead to atrocities such as the Holocaust and other genocides.

Additional text

Roth's philosophical contribution to attempting to understand the Holocaust and its implications is impressive not only in his productivity, but in his scope. His diverse interests are signalled in the important plurality of his book's title: there are multiple failures and therefore multiple ways in which to think about how they might be countered.

Product details

• Authors: John K Roth, John K. Roth, John K. (Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus Roth, John K. (Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy Roth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780198785200
• ISBN: 978-0-19-878520-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Europe, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, RELIGION / Ethics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, Ethics & moral philosophy, Second World War, The Holocaust, Ethics and moral philosophy, Religious ethics, c 1940 to c 1949, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater