C Fred Alford

After the Holocaust

The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780521766326
• ISBN-10: 052176632X
• Artikelnr.: 26057025

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Job, transitional space, and ruthlessness
3. Holocaust testimonies: after the silence of Job
4. Sisyphus, Levi, and Job at Auschwitz
5. Conclusion: beyond the silence of Job.