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Moral Complexity and the Holocaust is the first sustained philosophical treatment of the morality of the Jewish Holocaust that brings together the somewhat paradoxical aspects of enormity and complexity...It is important reading for all those who are struggling to find ways to overcome simplistic understandings of evil. -- Peta Bowden, chair of philosophy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch University, Western Australia Of special interest is the book's appendix offering eyewitness testimonies of a number of Holocaust survivors-an unusual feature in a scholarly, academic tome...Recommended. * CHOICE, September 2009 * Beginning with the detailed investigations of Christopher Browning, Fellman explores the complexityof moral decision making in the context of Nazi rule and the Holocaust. By showing that individuals were caught in a complicated weave of responsibilities, luck and experience, Fellman challenges our often facile judgment of ordinary individuals caught in such an extraordinary situation. This book is meant to relate not only to Nazi Germany, but to look beyond the Holocaust to the larger issues of responsibility, integrity and morality as these play out in people's lives in the real world. -- Peter J. Haas, Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies Chair and director of the Department of Religious Studies, the Samuel Rosenthal

Moral Complexity and the Holocaust is the first sustained philosophical treatment of the morality of the Jewish Holocaust that brings together the somewhat paradoxical aspects of enormity and complexity...It is important reading for all those who are struggling to find ways to overcome simplistic understandings of evil. -- Peta Bowden, chair of philosophy in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Murdoch University, Western Australia Of special interest is the book's appendix offering eyewitness testimonies of a number of Holocaust survivors-an unusual feature in a scholarly, academic tome...Recommended. * CHOICE, September 2009 * Beginning with the detailed investigations of Christopher Browning, Fellman explores the complexityof moral decision making in the context of Nazi rule and the Holocaust. By showing that individuals were caught in a complicated weave of responsibilities, luck and experience, Fellman challenges our often facile judgment of ordinary individuals caught in such an extraordinary situation. This book is meant to relate not only to Nazi Germany, but to look beyond the Holocaust to the larger issues of responsibility, integrity and morality as these play out in people's lives in the real world. -- Peter J. Haas, Abba Hillel Silver Professor of Jewish Studies Chair and director of the Department of Religious Studies, the Samuel Rosenthal

Moral Complexity and the Holocaust is the first sustained philosophical treatment of the morality of the Jewish Holocaust that brings together the somewhat paradoxical aspects of enormity and complexity...It is important reading for all those who are struggling to find ways to overcome simplistic understandings of evil. -- Peta Bowden Of special interest is the book's appendix offering eyewitness testimonies of a number of Holocaust survivors--an unusual feature in a scholarly, academic tome...Recommended. Choice, September 2009 Beginning with the detailed investigations of Christopher Browning, Fellman explores the complexityof moral decision making in the context of Nazi rule and the Holocaust. By showing that individuals were caught in a complicated weave of responsibilities, luck and experience, Fellman challenges our often facile judgment of ordinary individuals caught in such an extraordinary situation. This book is meant to relate not only to Nazi Germany, but to look beyond the Holocaust to the larger issues of responsibility, integrity and morality as these play out in people's lives in the real world. -- Haas, Peter J.

Moral Complexity and the Holocaust is the first sustained philosophical treatment of the morality of the Jewish Holocaust that brings together the somewhat paradoxical aspects of enormity and complexity...It is important reading for all those who are struggling to find ways to overcome simplistic understandings of evil.--Peta Bowden

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Dr. Marc Fellman works in research governance at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. He is also a contributor to an edited volume by Pedro Tabensky, Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning, and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation.

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