Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture / edited and introduced by Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.

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Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017]
  • ©2017
Description
xix, 225 pages ; 23 cm.

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    Series
    • Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies [More in this series]
    • The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies
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    Summary note
    The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a "necessary evil." Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is unthinkable?
    Notes
    A Samuel and Althea Stroum book.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index.
    Contents
    • Prologue: The questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth
    • Torture during the Holocaust : responsible witnessing / Leonard Grob
    • Torture / Björn Krondorfer
    • Speech under torture : bearing witness to the howl / Dorota Glowacka
    • Johann Baptist Neuhäusler and torture in Dachau / Suzanne Brown-Fleming
    • The emerging Halachic debate about torture / Peter J. Haas
    • Torture in light of the Holocaust : an impossible possibility / Didier Pollefeyt
    • The justification of suffering : Holocaust theodicy and torture / Sarah K. Pinnock
    • Assuaging pain : therapeutic care for torture survivors / Margaret Brearley
    • Torture and the totalitarian appropriation of the human being from national socialism to Islamic jihadism / David Patterson
    • Crying out : rape as torture and the responsibility to protect / John K. Roth
    • Epilogue: Again, the questions of torture / Leonard Grob and John K. Roth.
    ISBN
    • 9780295998459 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 0295998458 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9780295998466 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 0295998466 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2016008401
    OCLC
    941139787
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