The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness - Hardcover

Wiesenthal, Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805241450 ISBN 13: 9780805241457

Verlag: Schocken Books, 1997

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Book by Wiesenthal Simon Cargas Harry James

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An international group of philosophers, critics, writers, and thinkers weighs the moral issues involved in Wiesenthal's young Jewish protagonist's response to a dying Nazi's confession of mass murder and plea for absolution. 20,000 first printing.

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oned in a Nazi concentration camp, Simon Wiesenthal was taken one day from his work detail to the bedside of a dying member of the SS. Haunted by the crimes in which he had participated, the soldier wanted to confess to--and obtain absolution from--a Jew.

This unusual encounter and the moral dilemma it posed raise fundamental questions about the limits and possibilities of forgiveness. Must we, can we forgive the repentant criminal? Can we forgive crimes committed against others? What do we owe the victims?

Thirty-five years after the Holocaust, Wiesenthal asked leading intellectuals what they would have done in his place. Collected into one volume, their responses became a classic of Holocaust literature and a touchstone of interfaith dialogue. This revised edition of The Sunflower includes 46 responses (ten from the original volume) from prominent theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and v

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• Verlag: Schocken Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0805241450
• ISBN 13: 9780805241457
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Cargas Harry James, Fetterman Bonny V.