After Evil

Cover Art for 9780231150361, After Evil by Robert Meister
ISBN: 9780231150361
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 3 December, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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 evial ends when justice begins. Rather, it assumes that a time before justice is the moment of put evil in the past. Merging examples from literature and history, Robert Meister confronts the problem of closure and the resolution of historical injustice. He boldly challenges the empty moral logic of "never again" or the theoretical reduction of evil to a cycel of violence and counterviolence, borken only once evil is remembered for what is was. Meister criticizes such methods for their deferral of justice and susceptibility to exploitation and elaborated the flawed moral logic of "never again" in relation to Auschwitz and its evolution into a twenty-first-century doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.

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