The Question of German Guilt Tapa dura - 2001

Edited, 2001. 1ST. Hardcover. New/New.

New York: Fordham University Press, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. 8x0x5. Front board very lightly soiled. 2000 Hard Cover. xxii, 117 pp. Shortly after the Nazi government fell, a philosophy professor at Heidelberg University lectured on a subject that burned the consciousness and conscience of thinking Germans. “Are the German people guilty'” These lectures by Karl Jaspers, an outstanding European philosopher, attracted wide attention among German intellectuals and students; they seemed to offer a path to sanity and morality in a disordered world. Jaspers, a life-long liberal, attempted in this book to discuss rationally a problem that had thus far evoked only heat and fury. Neither an evasive apology nor a wholesome condemnation, his book distinguished between types of guilt and degrees of responsibility. He listed four categories of guilt: criminal guilt (the commitment of overt acts), political guilt (the degree of political… Leer más

Fordham University Press. Hardcover. New. 7x5x0.

Fordham University Press, 2001-09-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!