Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Ubiquity of Human Rights in a Cosmopolitan Age
2. Sociology and Human Rights
3. Sovereignty and Human Rights: The Hobbesian Challenge
4. International Law and the Formation of Nation-States
5. From Minority to Human: The Changing Face of Rights
6. The Cold War Period: More Than One Universalism 7. The Post–Cold War Period: Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Turn
8. Human Rights and the Clash of Memories: The Politics of Forgiveness
9 East Meets West: Europe and Its Others
10. A Sociology of Human Rights and Sovereignty After 9/11
Notes
References
Index
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.
“In this inspirational text about the impact of human-rights
principles and normative cosmopolitanism on both the nation-state
and international relations, Levy and Sznaider address the dominant
moral problems of our time. Why should I care? Who is my brother?
What should I remember? Through a defense of cosmopolitan ethics,
they provide convincing answers to the perplexities of rights from
Hannah Arendt onwards, namely, the specific rights of citizens
versus the universal Rights of Man. Human rights matter because
modern states can no longer abuse their own citizens with impunity
in the name of national unity. Given the slide toward
authoritarianism and state security, the task of defending both
cosmopolitanism and human rights has a definite political urgency
to which Human Rights and Memory offers a decisive response.”—Bryan
S. Turner,Presidential Professor, the City University of New York,
the 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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