Losing Trust in the World
Subtitle: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: Nov 04, 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780295998466
Description: The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a "necessary evil." Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is unthinkable?
Notes: Source title: Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)