{"product_id":"9781032912295-common-humanity","title":"A Common Humanity","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThinking About Love and Truth and Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of Arendt, Weil, Primo Levi and Iris Murdoch, amongst others, Raimond Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface and a substantial Postscript by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolocaust denial, racism, genocide of indigenous peoples and the long-lasting harms inflicted by colonialism pose deep challenges to any idea of a common humanity. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a shared morality? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonises in \u003ci\u003eA Common Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e. He discusses the complex and often fraught relations between hatred and forgiveness, evil and love, suffering and compassion, the mundane and the precious.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the thin 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the work of Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Primo Levi and Iris Murdoch, amongst others, Gaita creates a beautifully written and provocative new picture of our common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface and a substantial Afterword by the author, in which he revisits some of the main themes of \u003ci\u003eA Common Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e and engages with responses to it since it was first published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56434724766070,"sku":"9781032912295","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36624311.jpg?v=1760563190","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032912295-common-humanity","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}