Guilt about the Past
Author | : Bernhard Schlink |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2013-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0702251933 |
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From the author of the international bestselling novel The Reader comes a compelling collection of six essays exploring the long shadow of past guilt, not just a German experience, but a global one as well.?I know of no other writer who engages with the struggle between the individual and the political world as deftly - and poetically - as Bernhard Schlink.' - The Herald Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society, not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behaviour, how to.