The Genocidal Temptation: Auschwitz, Hiroshima, Rwanda and Beyond, Robert S. Frey, ed., (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004), xviii + 267 pp., cloth 35.00
All but one of the seventeen chapters of this book are reprinted from the journal BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. The subtitle hints at the subject matter: ethics in light of the enormities of the twentieth century. The editor claims its originali...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 141-143 |
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| Summary: | All but one of the seventeen chapters of this book are reprinted from the journal BRIDGES: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science. The subtitle hints at the subject matter: ethics in light of the enormities of the twentieth century. The editor claims its originality in the following terms: “This is the first time that—in one volume—compelling integrated focus has been directed towards the Nazi killing programs, American atomic bombings in Japan, Tutsi massacres in Rwanda, Soviet genocide in Lithuania, and other mass killing and repression programs” (p. xvi, emphasis in original). Given this idiosyncratic assortment, it is hardly surprising that no other book reprises exactly the same list. Thus we have Darrell J. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcj016 |