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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order
Book Synopsis* This book weaves together an original argument about cosmopolitanism, and a plea for what the author calls 'rooted cosmopolitanism', with an historical argument about Jewish memory in relation to the Holocaust.Trade Review"Jewish Memory enriches its interpretation with the analysis of significant political events and actions."—Political Studies Review "In this fine piece of writing, Sznaider confronts us directly with a paradox of current imaginations of new cosmopolitanism in Europe."—Sociological Review "What is Europe? Not a state, not a territory, argues Natan Sznaider, but a process of shifting borders, and a cosmopolitan memory and vision lived by a multi-lingual Jewish culture. This book exemplifies the richness of cosmopolitan theory and research in the humanities."—Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "Natan Sznaider brilliantly demonstrates that 'the Jew' has become preeminently the symbol and the vehicle for cosmopolitanism. Jewish universalism and tribalism appear to epitomize the dilemmas and contradictions of the modern cosmopolitan imagination. Through the lens of Hannah Arendt's philosophy and the traumatic history of European Jews, the author explores the contemporary debate about universal ethics. The result is a tour de force in history, sociology and political theory."—Bryan S. Turner, City University of New York "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Jewish or any other politics. Sznaider's main thesis is that the particularity of memories and experiences is not subordinate to the universality of an idea such as cosmopolitanism - that the latter is void of worldly and even human relevance without the former. He makes his case through a close examination of modern Jewish thought, with specific and illuminating emphasis on Hannah Arendt. This is a work of inspired scholarship."—Jerome Kohn, New School University "Sznaider's book is a welcome addition to the growing list of scholars who understand 'Jewish politics', outside of Israel, as a transnational enterprise of activists, intellectuals, and NGOs." (Human Rights Review 2015)Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last EuropeansChapter 3: Frankfurt, Jerusalem, Offenbach, and New York: Jews and EuropeChapter 4: The View from Eastern Europe: From Warsaw to New YorkChapter 5: Zurich, Vilna, and Nuremberg: Generalized GuiltChapter 6: From Nuremberg to New York via JerusalemChapter 7: Between Drohobych and New York: An End and a New BeginningReferences
£49.50
Carl Hanser Verlag Fluchtpunkte der Erinnerung
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£21.60
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order
Book Synopsis* This book weaves together an original argument about cosmopolitanism, and a plea for what the author calls 'rooted cosmopolitanism', with an historical argument about Jewish memory in relation to the Holocaust.Trade Review"Jewish Memory enriches its interpretation with the analysis of significant political events and actions."—Political Studies Review "In this fine piece of writing, Sznaider confronts us directly with a paradox of current imaginations of new cosmopolitanism in Europe."—Sociological Review "What is Europe? Not a state, not a territory, argues Natan Sznaider, but a process of shifting borders, and a cosmopolitan memory and vision lived by a multi-lingual Jewish culture. This book exemplifies the richness of cosmopolitan theory and research in the humanities."—Ulrich Beck, University of Munich "Natan Sznaider brilliantly demonstrates that 'the Jew' has become preeminently the symbol and the vehicle for cosmopolitanism. Jewish universalism and tribalism appear to epitomize the dilemmas and contradictions of the modern cosmopolitan imagination. Through the lens of Hannah Arendt's philosophy and the traumatic history of European Jews, the author explores the contemporary debate about universal ethics. The result is a tour de force in history, sociology and political theory."—Bryan S. Turner, City University of New York "This book is a must-read for anyone interested in Jewish or any other politics. Sznaider's main thesis is that the particularity of memories and experiences is not subordinate to the universality of an idea such as cosmopolitanism - that the latter is void of worldly and even human relevance without the former. He makes his case through a close examination of modern Jewish thought, with specific and illuminating emphasis on Hannah Arendt. This is a work of inspired scholarship."—Jerome Kohn, New School University "Sznaider's book is a welcome addition to the growing list of scholars who understand 'Jewish politics', outside of Israel, as a transnational enterprise of activists, intellectuals, and NGOs." (Human Rights Review 2015)Table of ContentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Paris, Geneva, and Port Bou: The Last EuropeansChapter 3: Frankfurt, Jerusalem, Offenbach, and New York: Jews and EuropeChapter 4: The View from Eastern Europe: From Warsaw to New YorkChapter 5: Zurich, Vilna, and Nuremberg: Generalized GuiltChapter 6: From Nuremberg to New York via JerusalemChapter 7: Between Drohobych and New York: An End and a New BeginningReferences
£16.14
Juedischer Verlag Gesellschaften in Israel
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£22.50
Juventa Verlag GmbH Politik des Mitgefhls Die Vermarktung der Gefhle
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£16.95
Carl Hanser Verlag Die jüdische Wunde
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£23.40
Taylor & Francis Ltd Memory and Forgetting in the PostHolocaust Era
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£39.99
Penn State University Human Rights and Memory Essays on Human Rights
Book SynopsisExamines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices.Trade Review“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“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 StudiesTable of ContentsContents 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
£46.36
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Compassionate Temperament
Book SynopsisThe argument of this book is that it is in the nature of modernity to foster compassion. Most critics tend to think of modernity as corrosive of moral sentiments. They see clearly the way in which modernity breaks down older social bonds, but they are much less attentive to the ways in which it also builds new ones. This book offers an historically informed corrective to this common view. Sznaider demonstrates that compassion, understood as the organized campaign to lessen the suffering of strangers, is a distinctly modern form of morality. It played an important role in the rise of modern society, and it continues to play an important role today. And when waves of compassion break out into demands for political action, these demands need to be understood rather than criticized as excuses or irrelevancies. Incorporating and critiquing the work of Arendt, Foucault, and other social theorists, this book is both erudite and historically richsure to be both controversial and influential Trade ReviewThis book lucidly attacks the persisting idea that modernity weakens moral solidarity. It shows clearly that compassion does not descend from 'tradition,' but arises from both capitalism and democracy. In demonstrating that compassion is a moral sentiment more than an ideology of power and control, Sznaider offers important revisions of classic and recent social theory. -- Allan Silver, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Sociology of Public Compassion Chapter 3 Pain and Compassion Chapter 4 Cruelty to Children Chapter 5 Democracy and Child Welfare Chapter 6 The Universalization of Compassion Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Bibliography
£31.50
Rowman & Littlefield The Compassionate Temperament Care and Cruelty in
Book SynopsisThis text argues that it is the nature of modernity to foster compassion. It offers a historical view to disprove the idea that modernity erodes moral sentiment and breaks down older social bonds. The book looks at the way in which modern society is building new and different social bonds.Trade ReviewThis book lucidly attacks the persisting idea that modernity weakens moral solidarity. It shows clearly that compassion does not descend from 'tradition,' but arises from both capitalism and democracy. In demonstrating that compassion is a moral sentiment more than an ideology of power and control, Sznaider offers important revisions of classic and recent social theory. -- Allan Silver, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Sociology of Public Compassion Chapter 3 Pain and Compassion Chapter 4 Cruelty to Children Chapter 5 Democracy and Child Welfare Chapter 6 The Universalization of Compassion Chapter 7 Conclusion Chapter 8 Bibliography
£119.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Ulrich Becks Kosmopolitisches Projekt: Auf Dem
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£999.99
Pennsylvania State University Press Human Rights and Memory 5 Essays on Human Rights
Book SynopsisExamines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices.Trade Review“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“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 StudiesTable of ContentsContents 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
£999.99
