Morality after Auschwitz : the radical challenge of the Nazi ethic / Peter J Haas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haas, Peter J. (Peter Jerome), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Moral and ethical aspects.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Ethics--History--Germany--20th century.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Wipf & Stock Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

"This book is a study of the Holocaust as problem in ethical theory. How could a whole society participate in an ethic of mass torture and genocide for over a decade without opposition from responsible political, legal, medical, or religious leaders? How does a society create and adopt its ethical norms? This is a study in narrative ethics at its best, yet the author's purpose is to discover how a people redefined evil to the degree that they committed heinous atrocities that were reprehensible under normal circumstances."--Guy Greenfield, Southwestern Journal of Theology"Peter Haas gives us a good overall description of the Holocaust, the way the Nazis and their myriad collaborators treated the Jews. The book . . . is well formulated and well written. It makes a good one-volume introduction to the Holocaust."--Frederick K. Wentz, Lutheran Quarterly"Peter Haas urges us to recognize ourselves in the perpetrators of the Holocaust. . . . In the course of setting forth his position, the author offers a concise and wonderfully accessible account of the formation of German political culture from Bismarck through Hitler. . . . Morality After Auschwitz is a serious book that should provoke long thoughts, and perhaps useful disputes, about the power of ethics to shape political cultures."--First Things

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781725233874

1725233878