| After the Holocaust Contributor(s): Alford, C. Fred (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521747066 ISBN-13: 9780521747066 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $36.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: This book is a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Theology - History | Holocaust - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 296.311 |
| LCCN: 2008048864 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.8" (0.55 lbs) 186 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish - Topical - Holocaust - Chronological Period - 1930's - Chronological Period - 1940's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering. Moving from the Book of Job, an account of meaningful suffering in a God-drenched world, to the work of Primo Levi, who attempted to find meaning in the Holocaust through absolute clarity of insight, he concludes that neither strategy works well in today's world. More effective are the day-to-day coping practices of some survivors. Drawing on testimonies of survivors from the Fortunoff Video Archives, Alford also applies the work of Julia Kristeva and the psychoanalyst Donald Winnicot to his examination of a topic that has been and continues to be central to human experience. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alford, C. Fred: - C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. A recipient of three awards from the Fulbright Commission, he is the author of more than a dozen books in moral psychology, most recently, Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation. |