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  • Genocide

    The Act as Idea

    by Berel Lang ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The term "genocide"—"group killing"—which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Since then the charge of genocide has been both widely applied but also contested. In Genocide: The Act as Idea, Berel Lang examines ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Genocide

    The Act as Idea

    by Berel Lang ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The term "genocide"—"group killing"—which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Since then the charge of genocide has been both widely applied but also contested. In Genocide: The Act as Idea, Berel Lang examines ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Philosophical Witnessing

    The Holocaust as Presence

    by Berel Lang ...
    In this volume, eminent scholar Berel Lang brings the perspective of philosophical analysis to bear on issues related to the Holocaust. Setting out from a conception of philosophical “witnessing” that expands and illuminates the standard view of the witness, he confronts the question of what philosophy can add to the views of the Holocaust provided in other disciplines. Drawing on the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Holocaust Representation

    Art within the Limits of History and Ethics

    by Berel Lang ...
    Since Theodor Adorno's attack on the writing of poetry "after Auschwitz," artists and theorists have faced the problem of reconciling the moral enormity of the Nazi genocide with the artist's search for creative freedom. In Holocaust Representation, Berel Lang addresses the relation between ethics and art in the context of contemporary discussions of the Holocaust. Are certain aesthetic means or ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Writing and the Moral Self

    by Berel Lang ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Ethics
    Originally published in 1991, this book analyses the relation between writing and ethics in a number of social contexts – in politics, as language discloses its connections to the institutions of totalitarianism and democracy; in the university, as contemporary scholarly ideals find an uncomfortably accurate representation in the stylistic forms of academic writing; in daily social practice, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Primo Levi

    The Matter of a Life

    by Berel Lang, Ariella Lang ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    In 1943, twenty-four-year-old Primo Levi had just begun a career in chemistry when, after joining a partisan group, he was captured by the Italian Fascist Militia and deported to Auschwitz. Of the 650 Italian Jews in his transport, he was one of fewer than 25 who survived the eleven months before the camp’s liberation. Upon returning to his native Turin, Levi resumed work as a chemist and was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD