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A Common Humanity
Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice
This book is available to read until 23rd April, 2026
- 328 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, 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, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch and Sigmund Freud, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.
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Topic
PhilosophySubtopic
Philosophy History & TheoryIndex
Achilles 272
Aeschylus 225
Age 110
Arafat, Yasser 103
Arena 192, 202
Arendt, Hannah 3, 39–42, 44, 11, 128–29, 136–44, 148, 153–54, 159, 186, 208
Aristotle 33, 36, 41, 44, 96, 224
Arnold, Matthew 225, 227–30
As If xiii
Augustine, Saint 106, 216–17, 219, 223–2
Australian 111
Bach, Johann Sebastian 219, 223–26
Beazley, Kim 107
Bettelheim, Bruno 245–47, 254, 265
Beyond the New Right 83
Blackburn, Richard Arthur 74–76, 78
Brecht, Bertolt 49
Brennan, Gerard 76–79, 99
Bringing Them Home 11, 57, 87, 107, 110, 112, 114, 116, 119, 122, 123–26, 129, 147
Buber, Martin 102, 106, 143, 245, 253, 271, 280
Buchanan, Rachel 2
Buckley, Vincent 192
Callicles 43–44
Canto of Ulysses 225
Casals, Pablo 219–25
Castan, Ron 94
Cavell, Stanley 14, 167
Chesterton, G. K. 128, 163, 166
Churchill, Winston 157
Civilisation and Its Discontents 35
Clendinnen, Inga 30, 47–48, 50–51, 114
Confession, The 48
Confessions 216–17
Cook, Cecil 122–23
Costa-Gavras 48, 261
Courier-Mail 119
Cries Unheard: The Story of Mary Bell xi, xii
Crime and Punishment 32
Culture and Anarchy 225, 227
Daily Telegraph 207
Dante Alighieri 225
Darville, Helen see Demidenko
Dawson, Daryl 76
Deane, William 76, 78...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introduction: Take Your Time
- Goodness beyond Virtue
- Evil beyond Vice
- Racism: The Denial of a Common Humanity
- Justice beyond Fairness: Mabo & Social Justice
- Guilt, Shame & Community
- Genocide & ‘The Stolen Generations’
- Genocide & The Holocaust
- Forms of the Unthinkable
- Truth & the Responsibility of Intellectuals
- Goodness & Truth
- Truth As a Need of the Soul
- A Common Humanity
- Select Bibliography
- Index