The Contract of Mutual Indifference
Subtitle: Political Philosophy After the Holocaust
Publisher: Verso
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781859848685
Subjects: Human rights; Political science & theory; Sociology, Social Studies; The Holocaust; Political Philosophy; Jewish Holocaust; Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Europe; Political science; History & Theory - General; Holocaust; Political; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Description: Geras focuses on the figure of the bystander - to the destruction of the Jews of Europe, as well as to more recent atrocities - to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active response at persecution and great suffering.