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Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide : Identity and Moral Choice /

What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide analyzes riveting interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces...

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Auteur principal: Monroe, Kristen Renwick, 1946- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.