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Hand of Compassion Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust

Hand of Compassion Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust
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  • Comments: Through moving interviews with five ordinary people who rescued Jews during the Holocaust, Kristen Monroe casts Good light on a question at the heart of ethics: Why do people risk their lives for strangers and what drives such moral choice? Monroe's analysis points not to traditional explanations--such as religion or reason--but to identity. The rescuers' perceptions of themselves in relation to others made their extraordinary acts spontaneous and left the rescuers no choice but to act. To...

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  • ISBN-13: 9780691127736
  • ISBN: 0691127735
  • Publication Date: 2006
  • Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr

AUTHOR

Monroe, Kristen Renwick

SUMMARY

"Infrequently does one read a book that clearly stands as a major contribution to its field. Even less frequently does such a book manage to speak lucidly and intelligibly to two worlds--academia and the general public. In presenting a new theory--of identity and perspective--to help understand the actions of rescuers during the Holocaust, Professor Monroe offers us not only a compelling explanation but one that is at the same time as emotionally moving as it is intellectually persuasive. This is an extraordinary achievement."--David Easton, author of "A Systems Analysis of Political Life""Monroe's very well written argument is advanced and justified by the five individual first-person narratives, gripping in their microdetail, at the heart of this book. I couldn't put the book down."--Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, University of Chicago, author of "Reversing the Gaze""Monroe's accounts of the rescuers are gripping and valuable. She is a sensitive interviewer who gets the most out of her subjects, and her analysis yields some unique conclusions about the theory of morality."--Robert E. Lane, Yale University, author of "The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies"Monroe, Kristen Renwick is the author of 'Hand of Compassion Portraits of Moral Choice During the Holocaust', published 2006 under ISBN 9780691127736 and ISBN 0691127735.

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