Norman Geras

The contract of mutual indifference

Political philosophy after the Holocaust

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781526104755
• ISBN-10: 152610475X
• Artikelnr.: 57479138

Autorenporträt

Norman Geras was Professor of Government at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Preface by Oliver Kamm Foreword Part I 1 The Contract of Mutual
Indifference I 'Consider that this has been' II A Different Kind of
Contract III The Duty to Bring Aid IV An Open Structure of Value Part II 2
Socialist Hope in the Shadow of Catastrophe 3 Progress Without Foundations?
4 Marxists before the Holocaust Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

Geras's is a remarkable book written with passion, compassion, and a genuine belief in the possibility of a better future. He is right to prompt us into proper consideration of what has previously been ignored. Imprints