Includes bibliographical references pages (334-340) and index.
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Prologue : Philosophy and genocide / John K. Roth -- pt. 1. The problem of evil : how does genocide affect philosophy? / John K. Roth. The evil in genocide / Berel Lang ; Rights, morality, and faith in the light of the Holocaust / Sander Lee ; How should genocide affect philosophy? / Frederick Sontag ; Genocide, despair, and religious hope : an essay on human nature / Stephen T. Davis ; The Holocaust and language / D.Z. Phillips ; Genocide, evil, and injustice : competing hells / Thomas W. Simon -- pt. 2. Innocent or guilty? Philosophy's involvement in genocide / John K. Roth. The doctorhood of genocide / Colin Tatz ; The philosophical warrant for genocide / David Patterson ; The rational constitution of evil : reflections on Franz Baermann Steiner's critique of philosophy / Michael Mack ; Epistemic conditions for genocide / Emmanuel C. Eze ; Genocide and the totalizing philosopher : a Levinasian analysis / Leonard Grob ; Why do the happy inhabitants of Tahiti bother to exist at all? / Robert Bernasconi -- pt. 3. Will genocide ever end? Genocide's challenge to philosophy / John K. Roth. Refocusing genocide : a philosophical responsibility / Raimond Gaita ; Genocide and crimes against humanity / Norman Geras ; Innocence, genocide, and suicide bombings / Laurence M. Thomas ; Beyond the affectations of philosophy / James R. Watson ; The warring logics of genocide / Edith Wyschogrod ; Philosophy's obligation to the human being in the aftermath of genocide / Paul C. Santilli -- pt. 4. Resistance, responsibility, and human rights : philosophy's response to genocide / John K. Roth. Genocide and social death / Claudia Card ; Genocide and the "logic" of racism / John K. Roth ; The right to life, genocide, and the problem of bystander states / David H. Jones ; Repudiating inhumanity : cosmopolitan justice and the obligation to prosecute human rights atrocities / Patrick Hayden ; "The human material is too weak" / Roger S. Gottlieb ; Virtue ethics, mass killing, and hatred / Paul Woodruff ; Shame, the Holocaust, and dark times / Michael L. Morgan -- Epilogue : "After? ... Meaning what?" / John K. Roth.
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Genocide is evil or nothing could be. It raises a host of questions about humanity, rights, justice, and reality, which are key areas of concern for philosophy. Strangely, however, philosophers have tended to ignore genocide. Even more problematic, philosophy and philosophers bear more responsibility for genocide than they have usually admitted. In Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide, an international group of twenty-five contemporary philosophers work to correct those deficiencies by showing how philosophy can and should respond to genocide, particularly in ways that defend human rights.