Genocide and human rights : a philosophical guide /

Other Authors: Roth, John K.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke [England] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. The problem of evil : how does genocide affect philosophy?. The evil in genocide / Berel Lang
  • Rights, morality, and faith in the light of the Holocaust / Sander Lee
  • How should genocide affect philosophy? / Frederick Sontag
  • Genocide, despair, and religious hope : an essay on human nature / Stephen T. Davis
  • The Holocaust and language / D.Z. Phillips
  • Genocide, evil, and injustice : competing hells / Thomas W. Simon
  • pt. 2. Innocent or guilty? philosophy's involvement in genocide. The doctorhood of genocide / Colin Tatz
  • The philosophical warrant for genocide / David Patterson
  • The rational constitution of evil : reflections on Franz Baermann Steiner's critique of philosophy / Michael Mack
  • Epistemic conditions for genocide / Emmanuel C. Eze
  • Genocide and the totalizing philosopher : a Levinasian analysis / Leonard Grob
  • Why do the happy inhabitants of Tahiti bother to exist at all? / Robert Bernasconi
  • pt. 3. Will genocide ever end? genocide's challenge to philosophy. Refocusing genocide : a philosophical responsibility / Raimont Gaita
  • Genocide and crimes against humanity / Norman Geras
  • Innocence, genocide, and suicide bombings / Laurence M. Thomas
  • Beyond the affectations of philosophy / James R. Watson
  • The warring logics of genocide / Edith Wyschogrod
  • Philosophy's obligation to the human being in the aftermath of genocide / Paul C. Santilli
  • pt. 4. Resistance, responsibility, and human rights : philosophy's responce to genocide. Genocide and social death / Claudia Card
  • Genocide and the "logic" of racism / John K. Roth
  • The right to life, genocide, and the problem of bystander states / David H. Jones
  • Repudiating inhumanity : cosmopolitan justice and the obligation to prosecute human rights atrocities / Patrick Hayden
  • "The human material is too weak" / Roger S. Gottlieb
  • Virtue ethics, mass killing, and hatred / Paul Woodruff
  • Shame, the Holocaust, and dark times / Michael L. Morgan.