A Common Humanity - Thinking About Love and Truth and Justice (Paperback, 3rd Edition)

Holocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a shared morality? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in A Common Humanity.

Hatred with forgiveness, evil with love, suffering with compassion, and the mundane with the precious. Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights when it is our shared feelings of grief, hope, love, guilt, shame and remorse that offer a more potent foundation for common understanding.

Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simon Weil, Primo Levi and Iris Murdoch, amongst others, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.

This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface and a substantial Postscript by the author, in which he revisits some of the main themes of A Common Humanity and engages with responses to it since it was first published.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Goodness beyond Virtue

3. Evil beyond Vice

4. Racism

5. Justice beyond Fairness

6. Guilt, Shame and Community

7. Genocide and 'The Stolen Generations'

8. Genocide and the Holocaust

9. Forms of the Unthinkable

10. Truth and the Responsibility of Intellectuals

11. Goodness and Truth

12. Truth As a Need of the Soul

13. A Common Humanity.

Postscript to the Routledge Classics Edition

Bibliography

Index

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Series:	Routledge Classics
Authors:	Raimond Gaita
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-291229-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General Promotions Books > Promotion > Routledge Philosophy
LSN:	1-03-291229-4
Barcode:	9781032912295

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