Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide

by Berel Lang

Overview

A philosophical analysis of the ideology, casual patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815629931
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Series:	Religion, Theology and the Holocaust
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Berel Lang is professor of humanities at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut His most recent books include Holocaust Representation: Art Within the Limits of History and Ethics.

Editorial Reviews

With brilliance, Lang invites us to consider . . . how we can be confident in claiming that the Nazis intended the genocide of the Jews.

Ethics

A master of formal argumentation and logic. . . The historical mode Professor Lang subsequently recommends becomes a remarkable instrument in his hands. We watch a master craftsman building moral judgments. He picks and chooses among the facts, using imagination and logical inference to probe, juxtapose, and join. He finds evidence in unexpected places.

Midstream

Berel Lang argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such fundamental moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, the role of knowledge in ethical decisions, and the conditions governing the relation between guilt and forgiveness. . .Lang shows how the moral implications of genocide extend to linguistic and artistic presentations of the Nazi extermination of the Jews.

Shofar

Lang (philosophy, SUNY at Albany) argues that the events of the Nazi genocide compel reconsideration of such fundamental moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, the role of knowledge in ethical decisions, and the conditions governing the relation between guilt and forgiveness. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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