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.
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Daniel Levy is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University.
Natan Sznaider is Professor of Sociology in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.
—Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor, the City University of New York, the Graduate Center
“Offering a comprehensive and elegant defense of both human rights and cosmopolitanism, Levy and Sznaider have developed a spirited account of the ethics of care against the security state and the politics of fear.”
—Bryan S. Turner, Presidential Professor, the City University of New York, Graduate Center
“This excellent book shows that the human rights regime gives rise to a geography of human rights that founds a new geography of power both within and between states. Within states it empowers powerless groups, and between states it empowers powerful states to intervene. This is part of a cosmopolitan realism that Levy and Sznaider are promoting and practicing very convincingly—a must-read.”
—Ulrich Beck, Munich University and the London School of Economics
“Human Rights and Memory is a useful contribution to the sociology of cosmopolitanism, rights and memory, and will prove to be a handy text for researchers and postgraduates in the field.”
—Peter Manning, British Journal of Sociology
“[Human Rights and Memory] raises new questions and should motivate rich lines of future empirical inquiry. I highly recommend it to scholars and graduate students in sociology, philosophy, law, political science, and history, to all who share an interest in memory and human rights.”
—Joachim J. Savelsberg, Memory Studies
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