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Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order (Hardcover, New)
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Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order (Hardcover, New)
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Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory
and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an
aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost
today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were
both a nation and cosmopolitan, they lived in a constant tension
between particularism and universalism. And it is precisely this
tension, which Sznaider seeks to capture in his innovative
conception of rooted cosmopolitanism', that is increasingly the
destiny of all peoples today. The book pays special attention to
Jewish intellectuals who played an important role in advancing
universal ideas out of their particular identities. The central
figure in this respect is Hannah Arendt and her concern to build a
better world out of the ashes of the Jewish catastrophe. The book
demonstrates how particular Jewish affairs are connected to current
concerns about cosmopolitan politics like human rights, genocide,
international law and politics. Jewish identity and universalist
human rights were born together, developed together and are still
fundamentally connected. This book will appeal both to readers
interested in Jewish history and memory and to anyone concerned
with current debates about citizenship and cosmopolitanism in the
modern world.
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