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Paperback After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights Book

ISBN: 0231150377

ISBN13: 9780231150378

After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights

(Part of the Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History Series)

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...

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