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

Author:   John K. Roth (Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198785200


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 March 2018
Format:   Paperback
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The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities


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Author:   John K. Roth (Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9780198785200


ISBN 10:   0198785208
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 March 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table 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?

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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. * Adam Brown, Journal of Religious History, Religious History Association *


The best parts of The Failures of Ethics reflect Roth's acute sense of the moral implications and demands of his field. * Jacob Howland, University of Tulsa, Holocaust and Genocide Studies * 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. * Adam Brown, Journal of Religious History, Religious History Association *


Author Information

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.

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