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050			_aJC571 .M385 2011
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100			_aMeister, Robert _97095
245		0	_aAfter Evil: A Politics of Human Rights/ _cRobert Meister
260			_bColumbia University Press _c2012
300			_a544p; _c23x15cm
505			_aPreface: 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			_aThe 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			_aEnglish
650			_aJC571-605 Political theory. The state. Theories of the state- Purpose, functions, and relations of the state _97096
650			_aZionism
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