John K Roth

Gebundenes Buch

Failures of Ethics

Confronting the Holocaust, Genocide, and Other Mass Atrocities

Beschreibung

A study of human failings in the overriding of moral sensibilities which lead to atrocities such as the Holocaust and other genocides.

Autor

John K. Roth is the Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights (now the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights) at Claremont McKenna College. In addition to service on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, he has published hundreds of articles and authored, co-authored, or edited more than fifty books, including Approaches to Auschwitz, Ethics During and After the Holocaust, and The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies. He has been Visiting Professor of Holocaust studies at the University of Haifa, Koerner Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and Ina Levine Invitational Scholar at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2012 he received the Holocaust Educational Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for Holocaust Studies and Research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780198725336
• ISBN-10: 0198725337
• Artikelnr.: 42398298