How Holocausts Happen by Douglas Porpora

How Holocausts Happen by Douglas Porpora

Comparing the general public's reaction to the Holocaust in Nazi Germany with American public opinion of US participation in the genocidal policies of Nicaraguan counter-revolutionary forces, this title demonstrates that moral indifference to the suffering of others was the common response.

"This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide" -John M. Swomley, St. Paul School of Theology, Kansas City "Porpora has brought together materials and insights which extend the bounds of holocaust thinking, reveal new insights in the Nazi holocaust and the shaping of 'holocaust-like' events, and sensitize us to the ways in which indifference can allow genocides to take place. There is a sense in which Porpora's book is a call to action-a call for us to rise above our moral and political indifference, to take action against 'disempowerment' and the early signs of genocide-making by our governments. In the tradition of Thoreau, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr., this book reminds us that we are human beings first and subjects afterwards; that we do not have a moral obligation to follow orders that brutalize our fellow human beings... A powerful and well-researched account of the move from indifference to genocide, both in Nazi Germany and Central America." -Ronald E. Santoni, Maria Teresa Barney Professor of Philosophy, Denison University

Douglas V. Porpora is Associate Professor of Sociology at Drexel University.

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ISBN 13	9780877227502
ISBN 10	0877227500
Titel	How Holocausts Happen
Autor	Douglas Porpora
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Temple University Press,U.S.
Erscheinungsjahr	1990-11-21
Seitenanzahl	240
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.