Bibliograph

The sunflower, on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness, Simon Wiesenthal ; with a symposium edited by Harry James Cargas and Bonny V. Fetterman

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The sunflower, on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness, Simon Wiesenthal ; with a symposium edited by Harry James Cargas and Bonny V. Fetterman

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The sunflower

Oclc number

35718520

Responsibility statement

Simon Wiesenthal ; with a symposium edited by Harry James Cargas and Bonny V. Fetterman

Sub title

on the possibilities and limits of forgiveness

Summary

While imprisoned 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 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. This revised edition includes 46 responses from theologians, political leaders, writers, jurists, psychiatrists, human rights activists, Holocaust survivors, and survivors of genocides. Their answers remind us that Wiesenthal's question is not limited to events of the past.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Bk. 1. The Sunflower -- Bk. 2. The Symposium. Sven Alkalaj. Jean Amery. Smail Balic. Moshe Bejski. Alan L. Berger. Robert McAfee Brown. Harry James Cargas. Robert Coles. The Dalai Lama. Eugene J. Fisher. Edward H. Flannery. Eva Fleischner. Matthew Fox. Mark Goulden. Hans Habe. Yossi Klein Halevi. Arthur Hertzberg. Theodore M. Hesburgh. Abraham Joshua Heschel. Christopher Hollis. Rodger Kamenetz. Cardinal Franz Konig. Harold S. Kushner. Lawrence L. Langer. Primo Levi. Deborah E. Lipstadt. Franklin H. Littell. Hubert G. Locke. Erich H. Loewy. Herbert Marcuse. Martin E. Marty. Cynthia Ozick. John T. Pawlikowski. Dennis Prager. Dith Pran. Terence Prittie. Joshua Rubenstein. Dorothee Soelle. Albert Speer. Manes Sperber. Andre Stein. Nechama Tec. Joseph Telushkin. Tzvetan Todorov. Arthur Waskow. Harry Wu

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