A Forest of Distinctions. "With Intent To Destroy: Reflections on Genocide" by Colin Tatz [review]
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2003-10
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Gaita, Raimond
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Australian Book Review
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I will say straightaway what I most admire about this book. It’s the way the author is present in it, the way his voice informs the content and is informed by it. Although "With Intent to Destroy" is a personal book, the self does not intrude in the many bad ways it often can. It’s personal in the way real conversation is personal, made so by the presence in it of people who speak authoritatively from their experiences because, as Kierkegaard put it, they have lived their own life and no one else’s.
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Australian, Book Reviews, Publishing, Catholic Church, Holocaust, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa, Stolen Generations, Aboriginal Australians, Indigenous, Rwanda, Philip Gourevitich, Simone Weil, 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, International Criminal Court, Inga Clendinnen, Armenia, Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Shalom Institute, University of New South Wales, Elie Wiesel, Raymond Gaita
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Gaita, Raymond 2003. A Forest of Distinctions. Review of "With Intent To Destroy: Reflections on Genocide" by Colin Tatz. 'Australian Book Review', No 255, October, 16-17.