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To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider
question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to
other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding
the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with
other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are
there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be
remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a
globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and
groups understand the moral and political significance of their
respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such
transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to
terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain
and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this
book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented
ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media,
scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory,
museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of
memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer
and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties
of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors
argue, is the "ethics of Never Again."
To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider
question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to
other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding
the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with
other narratives of victimization that demand equal treatment. Are
there crimes that must be forgotten and others that should be
remembered? In this book the authors examine the effects of a
globalized Holocaust culture on the ways in which individuals and
groups understand the moral and political significance of their
respective histories of extreme political violence. Do such
transnational memories facilitate or hamper the task of coming to
terms with and overcoming divisive pasts? Taking Argentina, Spain
and a number of sites in post-communist Europe as test cases, this
book illustrates the transformation from a nationally oriented
ethics to a trans-national one. The authors look at media,
scholarly discourse, NGOs dealing with human rights and memory,
museums and memorial sites, and examine how a new generation of
memory activists revisits the past to construct a new future. Baer
and Sznaider follow these attempts to manoeuvre between the duties
of remembrance and the benefits of forgetting. This, the authors
argue, is the "ethics of Never Again."
The argument of this book is that it is in the nature of modernity
to foster compassion. Most critics tend to think of modernity as
corrosive of moral sentiments. They see clearly the way in which
modernity breaks down older social bonds, but they are much less
attentive to the ways in which it also builds new ones. This book
offers an historically informed corrective to this common view.
Sznaider demonstrates that compassion, understood as the organized
campaign to lessen the suffering of strangers, is a distinctly
modern form of morality. It played an important role in the rise of
modern society, and it continues to play an important role today.
And when waves of compassion break out into demands for political
action, these demands need to be understood rather than criticized
as excuses or irrelevancies. Incorporating and critiquing the work
of Arendt, Foucault, and other social theorists, this book is both
erudite and historically rich sure to be both controversial and
influential among those who debate modernity, morality, and social
justice.
Can collective memories of the past shape the future? If one of the
fears about a globalized society is the homogenization of culture,
can it nevertheless be true that the homogenization of memory might
have a positive impact on political and cultural norms? Originally
published in Germany, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age
examines the nature of collective memory in a globalized world, and
how the memory of one particular event-the Holocaust-helped give
rise to an emerging global consensus on human rights. Daniel Levy
and Natan Sznaider show how memories of the Holocaust have been
de-contextualized from the original event and offer a framework for
interpreting contemporary acts of injustice such as ethnic
cleansing and genocide. Representations of mass atrocities in
Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s resonated with iconographies of
the Holocaust and played a significant role in the political and
military interventions in the Balkans. Subsequently, these
representations have had a crucial impact on the consolidation of
international human rights and related issues of transitional
justice, reparations, and restitution.
Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key
role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance
lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the
particular-the universality of human values and the particularity
of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and
Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights
discourse since World War II and interpret its deployment of
memories as a new form of cosmopolitanism, exemplifying a dynamic
through which global concerns become part of local experiences, and
vice versa.
Can collective memories of the past shape the future? If one of the
fears about a globalized society is the homogenization of culture,
can it nevertheless be true that the homogenization of memory might
have a positive impact on political and cultural norms? Originally
published in Germany, The Holocaust and Memory in the Global Age
examines the nature of collective memory in a globalized world, and
how the memory of one particular event?the Holocaust?helped give
rise to an emerging global consensus on human rights. Daniel Levy
and Natan Sznaider show how memories of the Holocaust have been
de-contextualized from the original event and offer a framework for
interpreting contemporary acts of injustice such as ethnic
cleansing and genocide. Representations of mass atrocities in
Bosnia and Kosovo during the 1990s resonated with iconographies of
the Holocaust and played a significant role in the political and
military interventions in the Balkans. Subsequently, these
representations have had a crucial impact on the consolidation of
international human rights and related issues of transitional
justice, reparations, and restitution.
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