The Failures of Ethics: Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities John K. Roth
In 1979, John Roth published A Consuming Fire: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust. In a body of scholarship on genocide and atrocity Roth has since then followed a single “red thread” of ethical failure—“shortcomings of thought, character, decision, and action that tempt us human beings t...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 446-447 |
| Review of: | The failures of ethics (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015) (Howland, Jacob)
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| Summary: | In 1979, John Roth published A Consuming Fire: Encounters with Elie Wiesel and the Holocaust. In a body of scholarship on genocide and atrocity Roth has since then followed a single “red thread” of ethical failure—“shortcomings of thought, character, decision, and action that tempt us human beings to betray what is good, right, virtuous, and just, and incite us to inflict incalculable harm” (p. 1). The Failures of Ethics traces, by way of a sequence of intellectual snapshots, the arc of Roth’s reflection on these terrible betrayals. Writing in a spirit of “persistent melancholy and tenacious hope” (p. 2), Roth urges the reader to join the interminable task of salvaging our humanity, and thereby to find meaning—and even joy. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcz054 |