After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights, Robert Meister (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 544 pp., pbk. 27.50/£19.00, cloth 60.00/£41.50
“This book is the reflection of an entire lifetime—what I now think about what I have thought since the mid-twentieth century” (After Evil, p. vii). No exaggeration, Meister's book is just that layered. It is dense, slow reading, hard to summarize, as it moves through political sociology and ph...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2012
|
| In: |
Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 323-325 |
| Review of: | After evil (New York [u.a.] : Columbia Univ. Press, 2012) (Card, Claudia)
|
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
|
| Online Access: |
Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | “This book is the reflection of an entire lifetime—what I now think about what I have thought since the mid-twentieth century” (After Evil, p. vii). No exaggeration, Meister's book is just that layered. It is dense, slow reading, hard to summarize, as it moves through political sociology and philosophy to religion, psychoanalysis, and economics. My review focuses on core political and philosophical issues, leaving aside parallels in religion, psychoanalysis, and much else., After Evil is about an injustice that carries on some of the evil of mass atrocities such as the Holocaust and apartheid. The injustice is that many of the beneficiaries of atrocities get to retain their profits for no better reason than that they were not themselves perpetrators. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcs047 |