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No Law in Krakow: A philosophical roman of terror, guilt, and fragile dignity

No Law in Krakow: A philosophical roman of terror, guilt, and fragile dignity

Van Houte, Cor P. M.

Paperback

Series: Philosophical Dialogues, Book 42

Historical Fiction

ISBN13: 9798291786093
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 9 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Krakow, 1944. A crumbling café becomes an unlikely arena for the last great battle of the human spirit.
As Nazi terror coils ever tighter around Krakow, three brilliant minds - Logos, a haunted philosopher; Psyche, a Jewish psychologist grappling with hope and horror; and Dr. iur. Etouhnav, a jurist shackled to the machinery of law - collide in desperate debate.

Their conversations blaze with questions no war can silence:

Can law remain just when it serves monstrous ends?

Is reason itself complicit in cruelty?

And does dignity still exist when survival is the only law?

Wrestling with Kant, Kierkegaard, Frankl, and the abyss of their own souls, they seek fragments of truth amid devastation. Yet beyond the dialectics, each faces a far starker choice: comply, resist, or be consumed by the void.

A profoundly human, fiercely intellectual novel, Ashes of Reason pierces the ruins of Europe to ask what - if anything - can save us from ourselves.

Dr.iur. Cor P.M. van Houte studied law.

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