Human rights and memory /

Human rights and memory /

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Author / Creator:	Levy, Daniel, 1962-
Imprint:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010.
Description:	x, 177 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Essays on human rights Essays on human rights.
Subject:	Human rights -- History. Human rights -- Social aspects. International relations -- History. Human rights. Human rights -- Social aspects. International relations. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8136431

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Other authors / contributors:	Sznaider, Natan, 1954-
ISBN:	9780271037387 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271037385 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Examines 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"--Provided by publisher.

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	x, 177 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780271037387 0271037385