Daniel Little: Confronting Evil in History (video abstract)
Παρουσίαση του βιβλίου τού Daniel Little , Confronting Evil in History , Cambridge University Press ( Elements in Historical Theory and Practice), Κέιμπριτζ – Νέα Υόρκη , 2022 [ 3΄ ] . Confronting Evil in History is a contribution to the philosophy of history , but it is a somewhat unusual contribution. The twentieth century witnessed the most sustained and devastating regimes of mass murder, enslavement, and degradation that the world has yet witnessed. The genocide of the Holocaust, the massive killing and degradation associated with Stalin’s war of starvation against the Ukrainian countryside (the Holodomor), and other instances of barbarous and state - initiated periods of atrocity during the century were enormous historical evils that must be confronted honestly and fully if humanity is to hope to avoid such catastrophes in the future. That is the premise of this Elements volume. The Element poses the question: how can humanity grow from confronting this history ...