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Susan Neiman
358 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691096087
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
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Evil threatens reason. It challenges our hope that things make sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Now we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.Examining our understand...
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Susan Neiman
358 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691096087
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: Not specified
Description
Evil threatens reason. It challenges our hope that things make sense. For 18th-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Now we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation.Examining our understand...