Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide

Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 453
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ISBN-10 : 9780691151434
ISBN-13 : 0691151431
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Book Synopsis Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide by : Kristen Renwick Monroe

Download or read book Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide written by Kristen Renwick Monroe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should Augustine, Plato, Calvin, Kant, Nietzsche, and Bonhoeffer be read today, in light of postcolonial theory and twenty-first-century understandings? This book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.


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