Losing Trust in the World (Stephen Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies): Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture (Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies)

by JohnK.Roth (Author), Leonard Grob (Author)

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In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Amery went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling.
Amery declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the very first blow. 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?

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In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Amery went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling.

Amery declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the very first blow. 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?

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 24 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 0295998458
ISBN 13: 9780295998459
Book Overview:

The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture, then and now.

Media Reviews

A compelling body of essays. . . . Readable and challenging. In the end, I'm not sure I know exactly how to `confront' torture. But I am better equipped to try.

-- Kelly McFall * New Books in Genocide Studies (NBN) *

Author Bio

Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University. John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights), Claremont McKenna College. The other contributors are Margaret Brearley, Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Dorota Glowacka, Peter J. Haas, Bjoern Krondorfer, David Patterson, Sarah K. Pinnock, and Didier Pollefeyt.