Helmut Dubiel / Gabriel Motzkin (eds.)

The Lesser Evil

Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
Herausgeber: Dubiel, Helmut; Motzkin, Gabriel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book compares the genocide perpetrated by both Nazism and Communism. Both political systems were evil yet, when compared, they lose some of their power to shock. The book considers: the different receptions given to Nazism and Communism; whether people can behave "rationally" in contexts of great wickedness; whether the Communist or Nazi worldview was more "rational" the relationship between post-war memories and history; and how atrocities are remembered by society and how intellectuals construct them. The editors argue that these twentieth-century evils invite comparison if only because of their traumatic effects and that we have an obligation to understand what happened and an obligation to understand how we have dealt with it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780714654935
• ISBN-10: 0714654930
• Artikelnr.: 22156303

Autorenporträt

Helmut Dubiel is the incumbent of the Max Weber-Chair at New York University. Gabriel Motzkin is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Approaches 1. Nazism-Communism: Delineating the comparison 2. The
Uses and Abuses of Comparison 3. Worstward Ho: On comparing
totalitarianisms 4. Imagining the Absolute: Mapping western conceptions of
evil 5. Remembrance and Knowledge: Nationalism and Stalinism in comparative
discourse 6. Comparative Evil: Degrees, numbers and the problem of measure
Part 2: Frames of Comparison 7. The Institutional Frame: Totalitarianism,
Extermination and the State 8. Asian Communist Regimes: The other
experience of the extreme 9. A Lesser Evil?: Italian fascism in/and the
totalitarian equation 10. On the Moral Blindness of Communism Part 3:
Legacies 11. Totalitarian Attempts, Anti-Totalitarian Networks: Thoughts on
the taboo of comparison 12. If Hitler Invaded Hell: Distinguishing between
Nazism and communism during World War II, the Cold War and since the fall
of communism 13. The Memory of Crime and the Formation of Identity 14.
Mirror-Writing of a Good Life?