Research Catalog

Title

Ethics in an age of terror and genocide : identity and moral choice / Kristen Renwick Monroe.

Author

Monroe, Kristen Renwick, 1946-

Publication

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2012.

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Details

Description

xiii, 437 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

How should Augustine, Plato, Calvin, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bonhoeffer be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subjects

• Genocide > Moral and ethical aspects
• Terrorism > Moral and ethical aspects
• Case studies
• Genocide > Moral and ethical aspects > Case studies
• Terrorism > Moral and ethical aspects > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.[405]-431) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. The puzzle -- Introduction -- The Holocaust and genocide -- Pt. 2. A study in contrasts -- Tony : rescuer -- Beatrix : bystander -- Kurt : soldier for the Nazis -- Fritz : Nazi propagandist -- Florentine : unrepentant political Nazi -- Pt. 3. Cracking the code -- The political psychology of genocide -- A theory of moral choice -- Conclusion : the psychology of difference -- Methodological afterward -- Appendix A. What is narrative and how reliable a tool is it? -- Appendix B. Glossary of terms and central concepts.

ISBN

• 9780691151373 (hardcover)
• 0691151377 (hardcover)
• 9780691151434 (pbk.)
• 0691151431 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2011009533

OCLC

• 705568496
• SCSB-10664332

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library