After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights/ (Record no. 4918)
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| control field | 4918 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780231150361 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | JC571 .M385 2011 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 323.01 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Meister, Robert |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7095 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Robert Meister |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Columbia University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 544p; |
| Dimensions | 23x15cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Preface: My Task Introduction: Disavowing Evil 1. The Ideology and Ethics of Human Rights 2. Ways of Winning 3. Living On 4. The Dialectic of Race and Place 5. "Never Again" 6. Still the Jewish Question? 7. Bystanders and Victims 8. Adverse Possession 9. States of "Emergency" 10. Surviving Catastrophe Conclusion: Justice in Time Acknowledgments Notes References Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The way in which mainstream human rights discourse speaks of such evils as the Holocaust, slavery, or apartheid puts them solidly in the past. Its elaborate techniques of "transitional" justice encourage future generations to move forward by creating a false assumption of closure, enabling those who are guilty to elude responsibility. This approach to history, common to late-twentieth-century humanitarianism, doesn't presuppose that evil ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment to put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycle of violence and counterviolence, broken only once evil is remembered for what it was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborates the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | JC571-605 Political theory. The state. Theories of the state- Purpose, functions, and relations of the state |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7096 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Zionism |
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| Koha item type | Book |
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| Political Science | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei | JC571-605 131.885 | 4918 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book | |||||
| Political Science | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei | JC571-605 131.885 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book |