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The Holocaust and attempts to deny it, racism, murder, the case of Mary Bell. How can we include these and countless other examples of evil within our vision of a common humanity? These painful human incongruities are precisely what Raimond Gaita boldly harmonizes in his powerful new book, A Common Humanity.Hatred with forgiveness, evil with love, suffering with compassion, and the mundane with the precious. Gaita asserts that our conception of humanity cannot be based upon the empty language of individual rights when it is our shared feelings of grief, hope, love, guilt, shame and remorse tha

1. Gaita on recognizing the human / Lars Hertzberg -- 2. The work of saintly love : the religious impulse in Gaita's writing / Stephen Mulhall -- 3. Insanity, crankiness and evil : and other ways of thinking the unthinkable / Jonathan Glover -- 4. Gaita and Plato : goodness, love and beauty / Christopher Cordner -- 5. Good and evil and the criminal law / Antony Duff -- 6. In search of goodness / Marina Barabas -- 7. Human dignity between kitsch and deification / Avishai Margalit -- 8. The meaning of what we have done : humanity, invisibility and law in the European settlement of Australia / Martin Krygier -- 9. Primo Levi : an appreciation / Robert Manne -- 10. 'It goes deep with me' : Plato's Charmides on knowledge, self-knowledge and integrity / M.M. McCabe -- 11. Romulus, my father and the "virtues of truth" / Genevieve Lloyd -- 12. Form and content in Romulus, my father / Peter Coghlan -- 13. On adapting Romulus, my father / Nick Drake -- 14. A poem and its haunting / Peter Steele.

"Is there such a thing as an 'international law' of which to be afraid? Can international law be seen as a coherent set of norms? Or is it, rather, something experienced radically differently by different individuals and groups in different parts of the world? And what do the different sets of international law seek to change or justify today? In [this book] noted authorities in this field respond to Raimond Gaita's invitation to explore ways in which international law constitutes a certain way of talking and being; one that might have both ameliorative and malign effects. The result is an extended and rich conversation about international law's aspirations and limitations, its nuances and rigidities, achievements and failures, relevance and irrelevance"--Back cover