Norman Geras discusses a central aspect of the experience of the Holocaust with a view to exploring its most important contemporary implications. Geras's argument focuses on the figure of the bystander to consider the moral consequences of looking on without active responses at persecution and great suffering.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface by Oliver Kamm
Foreword
Part I
1 The Contract of Mutual Indifference
I 'Consider that this has been'
II A Different Kind of Contract
III The Duty to Bring Aid
IV An Open Structure of Value
Part II
2 Socialist Hope in the Shadow of Catastrophe
3 Progress Without Foundations?
4 Marxists before the Holocaust
Bibliography
Index