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Seeing Atrocities: Ethics for Visual Encounters with Intolerable Harms

Seeing Atrocities: Ethics for Visual Encounters with Intolerable Harms


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In the 21st century, it is impossible to avoid seeing atrocities. Pictures of grievous death populate the pages of newspapers and aggregators almost daily. Billboards and banner ads for humanitarian organizations routinely feature scenes of famine and forced displacement. With the spread of social media, our closest friends and relatives have become key sources of visual encounters with intolerable harms. Seeing Atrocities explains what we stand to gain from such encounters, and supplies crucial tools for navigating them. Images--from photographs and films to children's drawings and VR-renderings--convey vital information about causes and culpability for atrocities. At the same time, images increasingly serve as vectors for mis- and disinformation, fueling conspiracy theories and inspiring acts of violent extremism. Whether in the classroom or the courtroom, the museum or the living room, the stakes of visual encounters with atrocities are substantial. So too are the risks of misjudging them. By showing what it means to see atrocities as atrocities, Paul Morrow forges new links between ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of perception. By surveying a broad range of visual encounters with atrocities, he aids lawyers, journalists, and educators in their efforts to teach, report on, or adjudicate such harms. Finally, by proposing specific norms for seeing, sharing, and exhibiting atrocities, he addresses moral questions confronting every reader in our globally connected world.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Seeing Atrocities 1: Defining Atrocities 2: Seeing Atrocities 3: Ethical Seeing 4: Professional Sharing 5: Social Sharing 6: Museum Exhibitions 7: Legal Exhibitions Conclusion Appendix A: Complete List of Proposed Norms for Visual Encounters with Atrocities

About the Author :
Paul Morrow is a philosopher and human rights scholar currently serving as a visiting research fellow at University College Dublin. His books include Unconscionable Crimes (2020) and the edited collection Museums and Mass Violence (2025). Paul has previously held positions at the University of Dayton Human Rights Center and the University of Virginia. Between 2023 and 2024, he co-led a federally funded grant on the prevention of domestic violent extremism titled PREVENTS-OH.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780197797006
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 214 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Weight: 480 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0197797008
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Ethics for Visual Encounters with Intolerable Harms
  • Width: 150 mm


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