Overview

How should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day. -- .

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Author:   Stephen de Wijze ,  Eve Gerrard ,  Ophelia Benson ,  Eve Gerrard
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780719080876

ISBN 10:   0719080878
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Contributors Preface Introduction 1. Michael Walzer What is Left internationalism? 2. David McLellan The Marxism of Norman Geras 3. Blogging interlude (i): Nick Cohen Professor Geras and Blogger Norm 4. Philip Spencer socialism or barbarism – Marxism and the Holocaust 5. Blogging interlude (ii): Ophelia Benson What is it like to be a blogger? 6. Alan Johnson Aurum de stercore: antitotalitarianism in the thought of Primo Levi 7. Laurence Thomas evil and the norms of society 8. Eve Garrard The case against forgiveness 9. Blogging interlude (iii): Damian Counsell A fine site 10. Jon Pike Geras on means and ends: the case for a prefigurative constraint 11. Stephen de Wijze Resistance beyond the moral boundary 12. Blogging interlude (iv): David Aaronovitch Democracy first 13. Gideon Calder Geras on context and indifference 14. Shane O’Neill Humanism and social hope 15. Hillel Steiner Evaluation and the quantification of freedom 16. Shalom Lappin This green and pleasant land: Britain and the Jews 17. Blogging interlude (v): Ian Holliday Cricket: the best-loved game 18. Norman Geras responses -- .

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Stephen de Wijze is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Manchester Eve Garrard is Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Manchester -- .

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