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The Question of German Guilt by Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski

The Question of German Guilt Karl Jaspers, S.J. Joseph W. Koterski ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 142
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823220680, 9780823220687

Margalit, Gilad: Guilt, Suffering, and Memory. While journalists and academics tend to separate questions of culture and identity from economics and foreign affairs, in Germany's case it's impossible to understand one without the other. Bruno Ganz, who plays the professor, actually includes Karl Jaspers' The Question of German Guilt as required reading for his young law students, including Michael Berg, Hanna's lover. Germany Since the early 2000s, there has been increasing interest in the question how Germans have remembered their experiences as victims of the Second World War. New York: Fordham University Press Talking to each other is difficult in Germany today, but the more important for that reason. Jaspers, Karl (2000): The Question of German Guilt. Argument is the question of German 'war guilt', with the Schlieffen plan produced as evidence of German aggression. The answer might not be that simple but it is an answer that is deserved by the American people, no matter how laborious it is to explain that answer clearly. How much has President Obama himself told to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court. Identifying passivity before human tragedy as complicity, Jaspers coined the phrase 'metaphysical guilt': as fellow humans, we are obligated to intervene on behalf of others whatever the risk. Karl Jaspers, The Question of German Guilt (New York: Capricorn Books, 1961; reprint, New York: Dial Press, 1947). How many countries will Germany need to bail out before it has erased the guilt of the Holocaust?