JOSEPH A. AMATO is Professor of History at Southwest State University in Minnesota. He has served as a consultant, humanist, and evaluator for several state and national humanities projects. Frequent reviewer, essayist, and the author of several books on ethics, death, and murder, Amato's abiding interest in twentieth century thought is represented by his Mounier and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World, Ethics: Living or Dead?, and Guilt and Gratitude: A Historical Study of the Origins of Contemporary Conscience (Greenwood Press, 1982).

• Foreword by Eugen WeberIntroductionPain and Suffering, Currencies of ValueSacrifice, All But the Philosophers' WayChristianity, Suffering's WorthDeath to Sacrifice: The Eighteenth Century Revolution Against TranscendenceAn Expanded Heart: A Century of Reform, Feelings, and EmpathyA Century of Victims: Europe's Responsibility for a World's SufferingAmerica: Its VictimsUniversal Victims and the Limits of the Politics of SufferingConclusion: To Tell of One's Own SufferingsBibliographical EssayIndexes

JOSEPH A. AMATO is Professor of History at Southwest State University in Minnesota. He has served as a consultant, humanist, and evaluator for several state and national humanities projects. Frequent reviewer, essayist, and the author of several books on ethics, death, and murder, Amato's abiding interest in twentieth century thought is represented by his Mounier and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World, Ethics: Living or Dead?, and Guilt and Gratitude: A Historical Study of the Origins of Contemporary Conscience (Greenwood Press, 1982).

• Foreword by Eugen WeberIntroductionPain and Suffering, Currencies of ValueSacrifice, All But the Philosophers' WayChristianity, Suffering's WorthDeath to Sacrifice: The Eighteenth Century Revolution Against TranscendenceAn Expanded Heart: A Century of Reform, Feelings, and EmpathyA Century of Victims: Europe's Responsibility for a World's SufferingAmerica: Its VictimsUniversal Victims and the Limits of the Politics of SufferingConclusion: To Tell of One's Own SufferingsBibliographical EssayIndexes

JOSEPH A. AMATO is Professor of History at Southwest State University in Minnesota. He has served as a consultant, humanist, and evaluator for several state and national humanities projects. Frequent reviewer, essayist, and the author of several books on ethics, death, and murder, Amato's abiding interest in twentieth century thought is represented by his Mounier and Maritain: A French Catholic Understanding of the Modern World, Ethics: Living or Dead?, and Guilt and Gratitude: A Historical Study of the Origins of Contemporary Conscience (Greenwood Press, 1982).

• Foreword by Eugen WeberIntroductionPain and Suffering, Currencies of ValueSacrifice, All But the Philosophers' WayChristianity, Suffering's WorthDeath to Sacrifice: The Eighteenth Century Revolution Against TranscendenceAn Expanded Heart: A Century of Reform, Feelings, and EmpathyA Century of Victims: Europe's Responsibility for a World's SufferingAmerica: Its VictimsUniversal Victims and the Limits of the Politics of SufferingConclusion: To Tell of One's Own SufferingsBibliographical EssayIndexes