The lesser evil

moral approaches to genocide practices

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July 11, 2022 | History

The lesser evil

moral approaches to genocide practices

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This book comprises 14 essays by scholars who disagree about the methods and purposes of comparing Nazism and Communism. The central idea is that if these two different memories of evil were to develop in isolation, their competition for significance would distort the real evils both movements propagated. Whilst many reject this comparison because they feel it could relativize the evil of one of these movements, the claim that a political movement is uniquely evil can only be made by comparing it to another movement.How do these issues affect postwar interrelations between memory and history? Are there tensions between the ways postwar societies remember these atrocities, and the ways in which intellectuals and scholars reconstruct what happened? Nazism and Communism have been constantly compared since the 1920s. A sense of the ways in which these comparisons have been used and abused by both Right and Left belongs to our common history.These twentieth century evils invite comparison, if only because of their traumatic effects. We have an obligation to understand what happened, and we also have an obligation to understand how we have dealt with it.

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Frank Cass
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The Lesser Evil
2004, Taylor & Francis Inc
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Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Cover of: Lesser Evil
Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
2004-07-15, Routledge
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Cover of: Lesser Evil
Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices
2004, Taylor & Francis Group
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The lesser evil: moral approaches to genocide practices
2003, Frank Cass
in English
Cover of: LESSER EVIL: MORAL APPROACHES TO GENOCIDE PRACTICES; ED. BY HELMUT DUBIEL.
LESSER EVIL: MORAL APPROACHES TO GENOCIDE PRACTICES; ED. BY HELMUT DUBIEL.
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Portland, OR
Series
Cass series--totalitarian movements and political religions,
Genre
Congresses.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.53/18
Library of Congress
HV6322.7 .L47 2003, HV6322.7.L47 2003, HV6322.7 .L47 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3688581M
ISBN 10
0714654930, 0714683957
LCCN
2003055203
Library Thing
8116434
Goodreads
802297
692016

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