Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture /

Losing trust in the world : Holocaust scholars confront torture /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	The Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies Stephen S. Weinstein series in post-Holocaust studies.
Subject:	Torture -- History -- 20th century. Torture -- History -- 21st century. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography. Historiography. Torture. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11408893

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Other uniform titles:	Grob, Leonard, Roth, John K., Container of (work): Grob, Leonard. Torture during the Holocaust: responsible witnessing.
ISBN:	9780295806716 0295806710 9780295998459 0295998458 9780295998466 0295998466
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 16, 2016).
Other form:	Print version: Losing trust in the world. Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2017] 9780295998459 0295998458

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Summary:	In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Améry went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling. Améry declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the "very first blow." The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of torture then and now. Their inquiry grapples with the euphemistic language often used to disguise torture and with the question of whether torture ever constitutes a "necessary evil." Differences of opinion reverberate, raising deeper questions: Can trust be restored? What steps can we as individuals and as a society take to move closer to a world in which torture is unthinkable?
Physical Description:	1 online resource.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780295806716 0295806710 9780295998459 0295998458 9780295998466 0295998466