Overview
- The first truly nuanced portrait of a member of the SS and Nazi Party
- A truly remarkable book, which grips the reader from the very outset. It forces us to question how individual fears, commitments and ideals can make people act in both morally courageous and reprehensible ways
- A wealth of case study material is presented in an accessible way throughout the book
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
"Konrad Morgen: Conscience of a Nazi Judge is the complex make-up of his rationale, all the grey areas of his humanity. People like Morgen do the right things for the wrong reasons, they hold essentially honourable principles which are nevertheless capable of being warped by the prevailing doctrines of their times." - The Jewish Chronicle
"Konrad Morgen: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge is a scrupulous and gripping account by two philosophers an Austrian and American of the confrontation of dilemmas of moral and legal philosophy by an actual person, a person not better or worse than any of us, in circumstances so unimaginably extreme that we may all hope never to have to encounter them. No hypotheticals concocted by clever academics to illustrate their ruminations on these abstractions could come close to the reality recounted here in meticulous detail, verified by unarguable documentation." - The New Rambler
"Through the words of Morgen himself, artfully intertwined with the two authors' analysis, we pick up on a character whose unswerving faith in justice led him to an untenable position that was revelaing of the utter uncompatibility of the Nazi principles and that which we cling on to in such cases: sheer humanity." - San Francisco Book Review
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Herlinde Pauer-Studer is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria. She has held fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Science and Fulbright; from 2010-21015 she held an Advanced Research Grant from the European Research Council.
J. David Velleman is a Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics at New York University, USA. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Konrad Morgen
Book Subtitle: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge
Authors: Herlinde Pauer-Studer, J. David Velleman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137496959
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-49694-2Published: 07 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-50504-3Published: 07 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-49695-9Published: 07 May 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 216
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Ethics, Moral Philosophy, History of Germany and Central Europe, Political Theory, Military and Defence Studies