After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights

by Robert Meister

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231150377
• ISBN13: 9780231150378
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"