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Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Paperback): Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Paperback)
Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
R1,284 Discovery Miles 12 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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."

Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Hardcover): Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era - The Ethics of Never Again (Hardcover)
Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
R4,436 Discovery Miles 44 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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 Compassionate Temperament - Care and Cruelty in Modern Society (Paperback): Natan Sznaider The Compassionate Temperament - Care and Cruelty in Modern Society (Paperback)
Natan Sznaider
R1,380 Discovery Miles 13 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Holocaust And Memory In The Global Age (Paperback, English ed): Daniel Levy Holocaust And Memory In The Global Age (Paperback, English ed)
Daniel Levy; Contributions by Natan Sznaider
R814 Discovery Miles 8 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Human Rights and Memory (Paperback): Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider Human Rights and Memory (Paperback)
Daniel Levy, Natan Sznaider
R720 Discovery Miles 7 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Holocaust And Memory In The Global Age (Hardcover, English ed): Daniel Levy Holocaust And Memory In The Global Age (Hardcover, English ed)
Daniel Levy; Contributions by Natan Sznaider
R2,141 R2,031 Discovery Miles 20 310 Save R110 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Ulrich Becks Kosmopolitisches Projekt - Auf Dem Weg in Eine Andere Soziologie (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.): Angelika Poferl,... Ulrich Becks Kosmopolitisches Projekt - Auf Dem Weg in Eine Andere Soziologie (German, Paperback, 2nd ed.)
Angelika Poferl, Natan Sznaider
R1,107 Discovery Miles 11 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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