| A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice Revised Edition Contributor(s): Gaita, Raimond (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415241146 ISBN-13: 9780415241144 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2002 Annotation: Powerful and timely, "A Common Humanity" asks why the language of morality has failed us. Drawing on examples of the Holocaust, the David Irving affair, the case of Mary Bell and the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia, Raimond Gaita challenges our received thinking about evil in this provocative exploration of what makes an ethical society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 00062740 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.18" W x 7.74" (0.78 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Academic |
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| Publisher Description: The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, A Common Humanity. Hatred with forgiveness, evil with love, suffering with compassion, and the mundane with the precious. Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights when it is our shared feelings of grief, hope, love, guilt, shame and remorse that offer a more potent foundation for common understanding. Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simon Weil, Primo Levi, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and Sigmund Freud, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity. |