Authors

Marc L. Fellman, University of Notre Dame AustraliaFollow

Title

The Case for Moral Complexity

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

In this chapter Marc Fellman seeks to situate the tension between judging and understanding, as it is understood in Bernhard Schlink’s The Reader, within the context of a discussion on the tension between moral complexity and moral enormity within Holocaust experiences. His claim is that the tension between judging and understanding is best understood as symptomatic of a more generalized tension between complexity and enormity, at least when it comes to understanding the Holocaust.

ISBN: 9780754653950

Comments

The author's final version is available for download.

Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation may be accessed from the publisher here

Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation may be accessed as a Google Book from the National Library of Australia here

Recommended Citation

Fellman, M. (2006). The case for moral complexity. In P. A. Tabensky (Ed). Judging and understanding: Essays on free will, narrative, meaning and the ethical limits of condemnation. (pp. 111-125). Aldershot, United Kingdom: Ashgate Publishing.