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Book SynopsisHow should we respond to the inhumanity that suffused the 20th Century and continues in the present one? Has there been an adequate treatment of this issue by the political left? Questions such as these are treated in this, the first scholarly book to combine academic and blogging approaches to some of the major political issues of the day.
Table of ContentsContributors
Preface
Introduction
1. Michael Walzer What is Left internationalism?
2. David McLellan The Marxism of Norman Geras
3. Blogging interlude (i): Nick Cohen Professor Geras and Blogger Norm
4. Philip Spencer socialism or barbarism – Marxism and the Holocaust
5. Blogging interlude (ii): Ophelia Benson What is it like to be a blogger?
6. Alan Johnson Aurum de stercore: antitotalitarianism in the thought of Primo Levi
7. Laurence Thomas evil and the norms of society
8. Eve Garrard The case against forgiveness
9. Blogging interlude (iii): Damian Counsell A fine site
10. Jon Pike Geras on means and ends: the case for a prefigurative constraint
11. Stephen de Wijze Resistance beyond the moral boundary
12. Blogging interlude (iv): David Aaronovitch Democracy first 13. Gideon Calder Geras on context and indifference
14. Shane O’Neill Humanism and social hope
15. Hillel Steiner Evaluation and the quantification of freedom 16. Shalom Lappin This green and pleasant land: Britain and the Jews
17. Blogging interlude (v): Ian Holliday Cricket: the best-loved game
18. Norman Geras responses
