Act and idea in the Nazi genocide
By: Berel Lang.
Edition: 1st Syracuse Univ. Press ed.
Series: Religion, theology, and the Holocaust
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Syracuse, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Moral and ethical aspects; Genocide -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: This work is an analysis of the ideology, causal patterns, and means employed in the Nazi genocide against the Jews. It argues that the events of the genocide compel reconsideration of such moral concepts as individual and group responsibility, the role of knowledge in ethical decisions, and the conditions governing the relation between guilt and forgiveness. It shows how the moral implications of genocide extend to linguistic and artistic presentations of the Nazi extermination of the Jews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.