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Human Rights and Memory (Essays on Human Rights) - Hardcover

Levy, Daniel; Sznaider, Natan

 
9780271037387: Human Rights and Memory (Essays on Human Rights)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0271037385 ISBN 13: 9780271037387
Publisher: Penn State University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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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About the Authors

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.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0271037385
ISBN 13 
9780271037387
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192