@article {549031, title = {Human Rights in the Absence of Virtue}, journal = {Journal of International Law and International Relations}, volume = {13}, number = {1}, year = {2017}, pages = {26-28}, url = {http://jilir.org/docs/issues/volume_13/13_6_Samuel\%20Moyn.pdf}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {546351, title = {The Red Cross and the Holocaust}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-red-cross-and-the-holocaust-1500417644}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {540866, title = {Retrieving Duties in an Age That Needs Them}, journal = {Jerusalem Post}, year = {2017}, url = {http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Retrieving-duties-in-an-age-that-needs-them-498025}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {531506, title = {Tradition and Beyond: Christian Human Rights in Debate}, journal = {King{\textquoteright}s Law Journal}, volume = {28}, number = {1}, year = {2017}, pages = {27-34}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09615768.2017.1299347}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {531501, title = {Christian Human Rights: An Introduction}, journal = {King{\textquoteright}s Law Journal}, volume = {28}, number = {1}, year = {2017}, pages = {1-5}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09615768.2017.1299349}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {521306, title = {Martti Koskenniemi and the Historiography of International Law in the Age of the War on Terror}, booktitle = {The Law of International Lawyers: Reading Martti Koskenniemi}, year = {2017}, pages = {340-59}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/public-international-law/law-international-lawyers-reading-martti-koskenniemi?format=HB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Wouter Werner and Marieke de Hoon and Alexis Gal{\'a}n} } @magazinearticle {521301, title = {Restraining Populism}, journal = {First Things}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.firstthings.com/article/2017/05/restraining-populism}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {520851, title = {The Long Road to Trump{\textquoteright}s War}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2017}, url = {https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/opinion/the-long-road-to-trumps-war.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn and Stephen Wertheim} } @article {517486, title = {Welfare World}, journal = {Humanity}, volume = {8}, number = {1}, year = {2017}, pages = {175-83}, url = {https://muse.jhu.edu/article/650953}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {497906, title = {Look Back in Anger}, journal = {The New Republic}, year = {2017}, month = {March 2017}, url = {https://newrepublic.com/article/140242/look-back-anger}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {488851, title = {Beyond Liberal Internationalism}, journal = {Dissent}, year = {2017}, month = {Winter 2017}, pages = {108-14}, url = {https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/left-foreign-policy-beyond-liberal-internationalism}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {499611, title = {Anti-Impunity as Deflection of Argument}, booktitle = {Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/anti-impunity-and-human-rights-agenda?format=PB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Karen Engle and Zinaida Miller and D.M. Davis} } @webarticle {471566, title = {Trump and the Limits of Human Rights}, journal = {Open Global Rights}, year = {2016}, url = {https://opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/samuel-moyn/trump-and-limits-of-human-rights}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {468961, title = {A Whole Climate}, journal = {The Nation}, year = {2016}, month = {21 Nov 2016}, url = {https://www.thenation.com/article/freuds-discontents/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {457156, title = {Le retour des droits de l{\textquoteright}homme}, booktitle = {La vie intellectuelle en France}, volume = {2}, year = {2016}, pages = {680-86}, publisher = {Seuil}, organization = {Seuil}, address = {Paris}, url = {http://www.seuil.com/ouvrage/la-vie-intellectuelle-en-france-tome-2-christophe-charle/9782021081435}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Christophe Charle and Laurent Jeanpierre} } @magazinearticle {455731, title = {Hope Hangover}, journal = {Chronicle of Higher Education}, year = {2016}, month = {24 Sept}, url = {http://www.chronicle.com/article/Hope-Hangover/237862}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {455736, title = {How Civil Liberties Went Mainstream}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2016}, month = {26 Sept}, url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-taming-of-free-speech-laura-weinrib-1474659994}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {450016, title = {The End of Human Rights History}, journal = {Past \& Present}, number = {233}, year = {2016}, month = {Nov 2016}, pages = {307-32}, url = {http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/08/31/pastj.gtw038.full}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {412131, title = {Endless War Watch, Summer 2016}, journal = {Lawfare}, year = {2016}, url = {https://www.lawfareblog.com/endless-war-watch-summer-2016}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {412126, title = {Why the War on Terror May Never End}, journal = {New York Times}, year = {2016}, month = {June 24, 2016}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/books/review/spiral-by-mark-danner.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {407181, title = {Knowledge and Politics in International Law}, journal = {Harvard Law Review}, volume = {129}, number = {8}, year = {2016}, month = {June 2016}, pages = {2164-89}, url = {http://harvardlawreview.org/2016/06/knowledge-and-politics-in-international-law/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {403331, title = {Local Roots, Universal Rights}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2016}, month = {June 1, 2016}, url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/local-roots-parochial-rights-1464734304}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {398991, title = {Rights vs. Duties: Reclaiming Civic Balance}, journal = {Boston Review}, year = {2016}, month = {May/June 2016}, url = {http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/samuel-moyn-rights-duties}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {395976, title = {You Must Remember This}, journal = {The New Republic}, year = {2016}, url = {https://newrepublic.com/article/133017/must-remember-war-memorials-david-rieff}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {382936, title = {Why Did Humanity Ignore the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?}, journal = {ABC Religion and Ethics}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/03/29/4433550.htm}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {380851, title = {America, Christianity, and Beyond}, journal = {Critical Analysis of Law}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, year = {2016}, pages = {195-205}, url = {http://cal.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cal/article/view/26459/19638}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {365566, title = {Justice Delayed: The Political Origins and Uncertain Future of Global Justice}, journal = {ABC Religion and Ethics}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.abc.net.au/religion/articles/2016/01/27/4395512.htm}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {365451, title = {History and Political Theory: A Difficult Reunion}, journal = {Theory \& Event}, volume = {19}, number = {1}, year = {2016}, url = {http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0\&type=summary\&url=/journals/theory_and_event/v019/19.1.moyn.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {357226, title = {Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism}, booktitle = {Religion, Secuarlism, and Constitutional Democracy}, year = {2015}, pages = {27-46}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/religion-secularism-and-constitutional-democracy/9780231168717}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Jean L. Cohen and Cecile Laborde} } @magazinearticle {347741, title = {Actual Lives}, journal = {The Nation}, year = {2015}, month = {23 Nov, 2015}, url = {http://www.thenation.com/article/the-beauty-and-the-costs-of-extreme-altruism/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {344396, title = {The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights}, booktitle = {Imagining Human Rights}, year = {2015}, pages = {9-32}, publisher = {Walter de Gruyter}, organization = {Walter de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, url = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/433538}, author = {Hans Joas and Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Susanne Kaul and David Kim} } @webarticle {344381, title = {Human Rights and the Age of Inequality}, journal = {Open Global Rights}, year = {2015}, url = {https://opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights/samuel-moyn/human-rights-and-age-of-inequality}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {342786, title = {On the Origins of Human Rights}, journal = {Eutopia}, year = {2015}, url = {http://eutopiamagazine.eu/en/samuel-moyn/speakers-corner/origins-human-rights}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {337791, title = {Toward a History of Clean and Endless War}, journal = {Just Security}, year = {2015}, url = {https://www.justsecurity.org/26697/sanitizing-war-endlessness/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {336471, title = {Civil Liberties and Endless War}, journal = {Dissent}, volume = {62}, number = {4}, year = {2015}, pages = {57-61}, url = {https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/civil-liberties-and-endless-war}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {325486, title = {"De l{\textquoteright}eau {\`a} la rivi{\`e}re": la r{\'e}ception anglo-am{\'e}ricaine de l{\textquoteright}oeuvre de P. Rosanvallon}, booktitle = {La d{\'e}mocratie {\`a} l{\textquoteright}oeuvre: Autour de Pierre Rosanvallon}, year = {2015}, pages = {65-77}, publisher = {Seuil}, organization = {Seuil}, address = {Paris}, url = {http://www.seuil.com/livre-9782021279733.htm}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Sarah Al-Matary and Florent Gu{\'e}nard} } @inbook {324086, title = {Giuseppe Mazzini in (and Beyond) the History of Human Rights}, booktitle = {Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/revisiting-origins-human-rights?format=HB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte} } @inbook {324096, title = {Human Rights and the Age of Inequality}, booktitle = {Can Human Rights Bring Social Justice?: Twelve Essays}, year = {2015}, publisher = {Amnesty International Netherlands}, organization = {Amnesty International Netherlands}, address = {Amsterdam}, url = {https://www.amnesty.nl/sites/default/files/public/can_human_rights_bring_social_justice.pdf}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Doutje Lettinga and Lars van Troost} } @webarticle {322281, title = {Christian Human Rights: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn}, journal = {Prospect}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/blogs/jonathan-derbyshire/christian-human-rights-a-conversation-with-samuel-moyn} } @newspaperarticle {322286, title = {Pope Francis Has Given Up on Human Rights}, journal = {Washington Post}, year = {2015}, month = {17 Sept, 2015}, url = {https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/09/17/pope-francis-has-given-up-on-human-rights-thats-a-good-thing/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {319396, title = {Sleight of Hand}, journal = {New Rambler Review}, year = {2015}, url = {http://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/history/sleight-of-hand}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {319006, title = {What Is Global Intellectual History - If It Should Exist At All?}, journal = {Imperial and Global History}, year = {2015}, url = {http://imperialglobalexeter.com/2015/02/23/what-is-global-intellectual-history-if-it-should-exist-at-all/}, author = {Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori} } @webarticle {300796, title = {Christianity, Contemporary Legacies, and the Critique of Secularism}, journal = {Immanent Frame}, year = {2015}, url = {http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2015/07/30/christianity-contemporary-legacies-and-the-critique-of-secularism/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {285956, title = {Truth and Triviality: Christianity, Natural Law, and Human Rights}, journal = {Immanent Frame}, year = {2015}, url = {http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2015/07/28/truth-and-triviality-christianity-natural-law-and-human-rights/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {285051, title = {Christian Human Rights-An Introduction}, journal = {The Immanent Frame}, year = {2015}, url = {http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2015/05/29/christian-human-rights-an-introduction/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {258266, title = {Do Human Rights Cause Inequality?}, journal = {Chronicle of Higher Education}, year = {2015}, url = {http://chronicle.com/article/Do-Human-Rights-Increase/230297/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {238791, title = {The Embarrassment of Human Rights}, journal = {Texas International Law Journal: The Forum}, volume = {50}, number = {1}, year = {2015}, pages = {1-7}, url = {http://www.tilj.org/content/forum/14\%20MOYN\%20PUBLICATION.pdf}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {238186, title = {Christian Human Rights}, year = {2015}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, organization = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, address = {Philadelphia}, abstract = {In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic Church and transatlantic Protestant circles dominated the public discussion of the new principles in what became the last European golden age for the Christian faith. At the same time, West European governments after World War II, particularly in the ascendant Christian Democratic parties, became more tolerant of public expressions of religious piety. Human rights rose to public prominence in the space opened up by these dual developments of the early Cold War. Moyn argues that human dignity became central to Christian political discourse as early as 1937. Pius XII{\textquoteright}s wartime Christmas addresses announced the basic idea of universal human rights as a principle of world, and not merely state, order. By focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, Moyn demonstrates how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and put to use by postwar democracies governed by Christian parties, which reinvented them to impose moral constraints on individuals, support conservative family structures, and preserve existing social hierarchies. The book ends with a provocative chapter that traces contemporary European struggles to assimilate Muslim immigrants to the continent{\textquoteright}s legacy of Christian human rights.}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Rights-Intellectual-History-Modern/dp/081224818X/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {232631, title = {Scofflaws in the White House}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-assault-on-international-law-by-jens-david-ohlin-1423613803}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {228856, title = {New Old Things}, journal = {The Nation}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.thenation.com/article/195553/bonfire-humanities$\#$}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {228116, title = {Unfinished Arguments}, journal = {New York Times Book Review}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/18/books/review/tony-judts-when-the-facts-change.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {224876, title = {Fantasies of Federalism}, journal = {Dissent}, year = {2015}, url = {http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fantasies-of-federalism}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {224301, title = {Did Christianity Create Liberalism?}, journal = {Boston Review}, volume = {40}, number = {1}, year = {2015}, pages = {50-55}, url = {https://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/samuel-moyn-larry-siedentop-christianity-liberalism-history}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {273186, title = {The Fall and Rise of Intellectual History}, journal = {Chronicle of Higher Education}, volume = {60}, number = {23}, year = {2014}, url = {http://chronicle.com/article/The-FallRise-of/144725/}, author = {Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {273191, title = {Who Guards the Guardians?}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303465004579324743689340998}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {243146, title = {Imaginary Intellectual History}, booktitle = {Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-modern-european-intellectual-history-9780199769247?cc=us\&lang=en\&}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn} } @article {227276, title = {A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism}, journal = {Law and Contemporary Problems}, volume = {77}, number = {4}, year = {2014}, pages = {147-69}, url = {http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4711\&context=lcp}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {221326, title = {The Scarlet Letter of Torture}, journal = {Al Jazeera America}, year = {2014}, url = {http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/12/senate-cia-torturereportmoralpanichawthornescarletletter.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {221281, title = {Thomas Piketty and the Future of Legal Scholarship}, journal = {Harvard Law Review Forum}, volume = {128}, year = {2014}, pages = {49-55}, url = {http://harvardlawreview.org/2014/12/thomas-piketty-and-the-future-of-legal-scholarship/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {220546, title = {The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity}, journal = {Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal}, volume = {17}, year = {2014}, pages = {39-73}, url = {http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yhrdlj/vol17/iss1/2/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {219001, title = {The Ambitious Past of Corporate Regulation}, journal = {Opinio Juris}, year = {2014}, url = {http://opiniojuris.org/2014/11/24/stewart-mini-symposium-ambitious-past-corporate-regulation/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {207836, title = {The Future of Human Rights}, journal = {Sur: International Journal on Human Rights}, volume = {11}, number = {20}, year = {2014}, pages = {57-66}, url = {http://www.conectas.org/pt/acoes/sur/edicao/20/1007250-o-futuro-dos-direitos-humanos}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {200336, title = {Judith Shklar {\"u}ber die Philosophie des V{\"o}lkerstrafrechts}, journal = {Deutsche Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Philosophie}, volume = {62}, number = {4}, year = {2014}, pages = {683-707}, url = {http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/dzph.2014.62.issue-4/dzph-2014-0045/dzph-2014-0045.xml?format=INT}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {194026, title = {Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law}, journal = {International Criminal Law Review}, volume = {14}, number = {4/5}, year = {2014}, pages = {717-37}, url = {http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15718123-01405013}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {191776, title = {Towards Instrumentalism at the International Criminal Court}, journal = {Yale International Law Journal Online}, volume = {39}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.yjil.org/online/volume-39-spring-2014/towards-instrumentalism-at-the-international-criminal-court}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {189871, title = {The Burkean Regicide}, journal = {The Nation}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.thenation.com/article/180956/burkean-regicide}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @webarticle {188556, title = {The Promise World War I Couldn{\textquoteright}t Keep}, journal = {CNN.com}, year = {2014}, url = {http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/08/opinion/moyn-world-war-i/index.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @newspaperarticle {178271, title = {Bulwark Against Barbarism}, journal = {Wall Street Journal}, volume = {June 5, 2014}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-a-scrap-of-paper-by-isabel-v-hull-1402010920}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {177821, title = {The World Transformed}, journal = {Prospect}, number = {220}, year = {2014}, url = {http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/book-review-the-transformation-of-the-world-by-jurgen-osterhammel/}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {177371, title = {Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Modern European intellectual history is thriving as never before. It has recovered from an era in which other trends like social and cultural history threatened to marginalize it. But in spite of enjoying a contemporary renaissance, the field has lost touch with the tradition of debating why and how to study ideas and thus lacks both a well-articulated set of purposes and a range of arguments for exactly what it means to pursue those purposes. This volume revives that tradition.\ Recalling past attempts to showcase the diversity and differentiation of modern European intellectual history, this volume also documents how much has changed in recent decades. Some authors are much readier to defend a history of ideas practiced over the long term - once the defining sin of the field. Others go so far as to insist on how ideas are always open to reappropriation and reevaluation beyond their original contexts - suggesting that it is an error to reduce the ideas to those contexts. Others still argue that, under threat from trends like social history, intellectual historians have forsaken any attempt to resolve for themselves how ideas are socially embodied.The volume also registers old and new trends in history that have affected the study of ideas, including the history of science, the history of academic disciplines, the history of psychology and "self," international and global history, and women{\textquoteright}s and gender history.}, url = {http://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-modern-european-intellectual-history-9780199769247}, editor = {Darrin M. McMahon and Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {177681, title = {Plural Cosmopolitanisms and the Origins of Human Rights}, booktitle = {The Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/political-theory/meanings-rights-philosophy-and-social-theory-human-rights?format=PB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Costas Douzinas and Conor Gearty} } @book {177366, title = {Human Rights and the Uses of History}, year = {2014}, publisher = {Verso}, organization = {Verso}, address = {New York and London}, abstract = {What are the origins of human rights?\ This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling.Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed\ Last Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions{\textemdash}including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention.}, url = {http://www.versobooks.com/books/1600-human-rights-and-the-uses-of-history}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {177711, title = {From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics}, booktitle = {Law and War}, year = {2014}, pages = {154-97}, publisher = {Stanford University Press}, organization = {Stanford University Press}, address = {Stanford}, url = {http://sup.org/book.cgi?id=20635}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Austin Sarat and Lawrence Douglas and Martha Umphrey} } @article {177686, title = {From Communist to Muslim: Religious Liberty in European Human Rights Law}, journal = {South Atlantic Quarterly}, volume = {113}, number = {1}, year = {2014}, pages = {63-86}, url = {http://saq.dukejournals.org/content/113/1/63.abstract}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {177661, title = {The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the History of Cosmopolitanism}, journal = {Critical Inquiry}, volume = {40}, number = {4}, year = {2014}, pages = {365-84}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676412}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @magazinearticle {285056, title = {Apocalypse Now}, journal = {Literary Review}, year = {2013}, url = {http://www.literaryreview.co.uk/index.php}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {243176, title = {Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division}, booktitle = {Claude Lefort: Thinker of the Political}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan}, organization = {Palgrave Macmillan}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Claude-Lefort/?K=9780230375574}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Mart{\'\i}n Plot} } @article {243156, title = {Drones and Imagination: A Response to Paul Kahn}, journal = {European Journal of International Law}, volume = {24}, number = {1}, year = {2013}, pages = {227-33}, url = {http://ejil.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/1/227.short}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {243151, title = {On the Nonglobalization of Ideas}, booktitle = {Global Intellectual History}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/global-intellectual-history/9780231160483}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori} } @article {184991, title = {The International Law That Is America: Reflections on the Last Chapter ofThe Gentle Civilizer of Nations}, journal = {Temple International and Comparative Law Journal}, volume = {29}, number = {2}, year = {2013}, pages = {399-415}, url = {http://www.temple.edu/law/ticlj/fall2013/Moyn_The\%20InternationalLawThatisAmerica.pdf}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {178266, title = {Judith Shklar versus the International Criminal Court}, journal = {Humanity}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, year = {2013}, pages = {473-500}, url = {http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0\&type=summary\&url=/journals/humanity/v004/4.3.moyn.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {177836, title = {The Continuing Perplexities of Human Rights}, journal = {Qui Parle}, volume = {22}, number = {1}, year = {2013}, pages = {95-115}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/quiparle.22.1.0095}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {177831, title = {The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity}, booktitle = {Understanding Human Dignity}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780197265642.do}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Christopher McCrudden} } @inbook {177806, title = {John Locke on Intervention, Uncertainty, and Insurgency}, booktitle = {Just and Unjust Military Intervention: European Classics from Vitoria to Mill}, year = {2013}, pages = {113-31}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/international-relations-and-international-organisations/just-and-unjust-military-intervention-european-thinkers-vitoria-mill?format=HB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Stefano Recchia and Jennifer Welsh} } @book {177381, title = {Global Intellectual History}, year = {2013}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of {\textquotedblleft}global intellectual history,{\textquotedblright} featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline.The contributors to\ Global Intellectual History\ explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of {\textquotedblleft}global{\textquotedblright} ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.}, url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16048-3/global-intellectual-history}, editor = {Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori} } @book {177376, title = {The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s}, year = {2013}, publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, organization = {University of Pennsylvania Press}, address = {Philadelphia}, abstract = {Between the 1960s and the 1980s, the human rights movement achieved unprecedented global prominence. Amnesty International attained striking visibility with its Campaign Against Torture; Soviet dissidents attracted a worldwide audience for their heroism in facing down a totalitarian state; the Helsinki Accords were signed, incorporating a "third basket" of human rights principles; and the Carter administration formally gave the United States a human rights policy. The Breakthrough\ is the first collection to examine this decisive era as a whole, tracing key developments in both Western and non-Western engagement with human rights and placing new emphasis on the role of human rights in the international history of the past century. Bringing together original essays from some of the field{\textquoteright}s leading scholars, this volume not only explores the transnational histories of international and nongovernmental human rights organizations but also analyzes the complex interplay between gender, sociology, and ideology in the making of human rights politics at the local level. Detailed case studies illuminate how a number of local movements{\textemdash}from the 1975 World Congress of Women in East Berlin to anti-apartheid activism in Britain, to protests in Latin America{\textemdash}affected international human rights discourse in the era as well as the ways these moments continue to influence current understanding of human rights history and advocacy. The global south{\textemdash}an area not usually treated as a scene of human rights politics{\textemdash}is also spotlighted in groundbreaking chapters on Biafran, South American, and Indonesian developments. In recovering the remarkable presence of global human rights talk and practice in the 1970s,\ The Breakthrough\ brings this pivotal decade to the forefront of contemporary scholarly debate.}, url = {http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15176.html}, editor = {Jan Eckel and Samuel Moyn} } @article {273181, title = { Die neue Historiographie der Menschenrechte}, journal = {Geschichte und Gesellschaft}, volume = {38}, number = {4}, year = {2012}, pages = {545-72}, url = {http://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/abs/10.13109/gege.2012.38.4.545$\#$.VZPEg2C1nas}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {273176, title = {Substance, Scale, and Salience: The Recent Historiography of Human Rights}, journal = {Annual Review of Law and Social Science}, volume = {8}, year = {2012}, pages = {123-40}, url = {http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-102811-173847}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {243166, title = {Anxiety and Secularization: S{\o}ren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism}, booktitle = {Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Contexts}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/situating-existentialism/9780231147743}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Robert Bernasconi and Jonathan Judaken} } @article {243181, title = {Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division}, journal = {Constellations}, volume = {19}, number = {1}, year = {2012}, pages = {37-50}, url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8675.2011.00666.x/abstract}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {243186, title = {The Creaturely Limits of Knowledge: Martin Heidegger, Immanuel Kant, and Weimar Theological Pessimism}, booktitle = {The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Lexington Books}, organization = {Lexington Books}, address = {Lanham}, url = {https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739140727}, author = {Samuel Moyn and Azzan Yadin}, editor = {Leonard V. Kaplan and Rudy Koshar} } @inbook {243191, title = {Imperialism, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Human Rights}, booktitle = {The Human Rights Revolution: An International History}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-human-rights-revolution-9780195333145?cc=us\&lang=en\&}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Akira Iriye and Petra Goedde and William I. Hitchcock} } @inbook {243161, title = {Intellectuals and Nazism}, booktitle = {Oxford Handbook to Postwar European History}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199560981-e-34}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Dan Stone} } @inbook {243171, title = {The Spirit of Jewish History}, booktitle = {Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/history-philosophy/cambridge-history-jewish-philosophy-modern-era-volume-2}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Zachary Braiterman and Martin Kavka and David Novak} } @inbook {184271, title = {Bearing Witness: Theological Sources of a New Secular Morality}, booktitle = {The Holocaust and Historical Methodology}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Berghahn Books}, organization = {Berghahn Books}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=StoneHolocaust}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Dan Stone} } @inbook {184256, title = {Afterword: The Self-Evidence of Human Rights}, booktitle = {Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment}, year = {2012}, publisher = {Bloomsbury}, organization = {Bloomsbury}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.bloomsbury.com/us/self-evident-truths-9781441185242/}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Tunstall, Kate E.} } @inbook {179451, title = {Do Human Rights Treaties Make Enough of a Difference?}, booktitle = {Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law}, year = {2012}, pages = {329-47}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/law/human-rights/cambridge-companion-human-rights-law?format=PB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Conor Gearty and Costas Douzinas} } @article {178616, title = {To Wipe the Slate Clean}, journal = {Yale French Studies}, number = {121}, year = {2012}, pages = {128-39}, url = {http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300184778}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {177801, title = {The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort}, booktitle = {French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day}, year = {2012}, pages = {291-310}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/history-ideas-and-intellectual-history/french-liberalism-montesquieu-present-day?format=HB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt} } @inbook {276161, title = { Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Origins of Human Rights}, booktitle = {Intercultural Dialogue and Human Rights}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Council for Research in Values and Philosophy}, organization = {Council for Research in Values and Philosophy}, address = {Washington, DC}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Intercultural-Dialogue-Rights-Series-Volume/dp/1565182715}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Luigi Bonanante and Roberto Papini and William Sweet} } @inbook {272086, title = {Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights}, booktitle = {Human Rights in the Twentieth Century}, year = {2011}, pages = {85-106}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, organization = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge}, url = {http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-european-history/human-rights-twentieth-century?format=PB}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann} } @article {243196, title = {The First Historian of Human Rights}, journal = {American Historical Review}, volume = {116}, number = {1}, year = {2011}, pages = {58-79}, url = {http://ahr.oxfordjournals.org/content/116/1/58.full}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {177826, title = {Preface}, booktitle = {The Last Jew of Treblinka: A Survivor{\textquoteright}s Memory, 1942-43}, year = {2011}, publisher = {Pegasus}, organization = {Pegasus}, address = {New York}, url = {http://pegasusbooks.com/books/the-last-jew-of-treblinka-hardcover}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {272091, title = {Personalismus, Gemeinschaft, und die Urspr{\"u}nge der Menschenrechte}, booktitle = {., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Wallstein Verlag}, organization = {Wallstein Verlag}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, url = {http://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835306394-moralpolitik.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann} } @book {177386, title = {The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Harvard University Press}, organization = {Harvard University Press}, address = {Cambridge, Mass.}, abstract = {Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today{\textquoteright}s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book,\ Samuel Moyn\ elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal{\textquoteright}s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post{\textendash}World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity{\textquoteright}s moral history,\ The Last Utopia\ shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.}, url = {http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674064348}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {272096, title = {Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the Rise of Holocaust Memory}, journal = {Patterns of Prejudice}, volume = {43}, number = {1}, year = {2009}, pages = {1-16}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00313220802636023?journalCode=rpop20}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {272081, title = {Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War}, journal = {Hebraic Political Studies}, volume = {4}, number = {3}, year = {2009}, pages = {286-303}, url = {http://www.hpstudies.org/20/admin/pdfs/76e822f1-ce7c-40c0-97dc-a2eb5549fcec.pdf}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {272101, title = { The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, volume = {6}, number = {2}, year = {2009}, pages = {315-41}, url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online\&aid=5881548}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {177401, title = {The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory}, year = {2009}, publisher = {Berghahn Books}, organization = {Berghahn Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities currently takes place at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. Just as critical theorists are becoming more aware of the historicity of theory, contemporary practitioners of modern intellectual history are recognizing their potential contributions to theoretical discourse. No one has done more than Martin Jay to realize the possibilities for mutual enrichment between intellectual history and critical theory. This carefully selected collection of essays addresses central questions and current practices of intellectual history and asks how the legacy of critical theory has influenced scholarship across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. In honor of Martin Jay{\textquoteright}s unparalleled achievements, this volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities and social sciences.}, url = {http://berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BreckmanModernist}, editor = {Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon and Dirk Moses and Samuel Moyn and Elliot Neaman} } @article {276171, title = {Hannah Arendt on the Secular}, journal = {New German Critique}, number = {105}, year = {2008}, pages = {71-96}, url = {http://ngc.dukejournals.org/content/35/3_105.toc}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {276166, title = {On the Intellectual Origins of Fran{\c c}ois Furet{\textquoteright}s Masterpiece}, journal = {Tocqueville Review}, volume = {29}, number = {2}, year = {2008}, pages = {59-78}, url = {http://www.utpjournals.com/The-Tocqueville-Review.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @inbook {276156, title = {Jacques Maritain: le origini dei diritti umani e il pensiero politico cristiano}, booktitle = {Dialogo interculturale e diritti umani: La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti Umani, Genesi, evoluzione, e problemi odierni (1948-2008)}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Il Mulino}, organization = {Il Mulino}, address = {Bologna}, url = {http://www.amazon.it/interculturale-Dichiarazione-Universale-evoluzione-1948-2008/dp/8815128239}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Luigi Bonanante and Roberto Papini} } @inbook {276151, title = { Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality}, booktitle = {The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory}, year = {2008}, publisher = {Berghahn Books}, organization = {Berghahn Books}, address = {New York}, url = {http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BreckmanModernist}, author = {Samuel Moyn}, editor = {Warren Breckman and Peter E. Gordon and A. Dirk Moses and Samuel Moyn and Eliott Neaman} } @article {276186, title = {From Experience to Law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar Crisis of the Philosophy of Religion}, journal = {History of European Ideas}, volume = {33}, number = {2}, year = {2007}, pages = {174-94}, url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2006.11.004$\#$abstract}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @article {276191, title = {Empathy in History, Empathizing with Humanity}, journal = {History \& Theory}, volume = {54}, number = {3}, year = {2006}, pages = {397-415}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3874132}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {177406, title = {Democracy Past and Future}, year = {2006}, publisher = {Columbia University Press}, organization = {Columbia University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Democracy Past and Future\ is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon{\textquoteright}s most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life.One of Europe{\textquoteright}s leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new readings of the history, aims, and possibilities of democratic theory and practice, and provides unique theoretical understandings of key moments in democracy{\textquoteright}s trajectory, from the French Revolution and the struggles for universal suffrage to European unification and the crises of the present. In so doing, he lays out an influential new theory of how to write the history of politics. Rosanvallon{\textquoteright}s historical and philosophical approach examines the "pathologies" that have curtailed democracy{\textquoteright}s potential and challenges the antitotalitarian liberalism that has dominated recent political thought. All in all, he adroitly combines historical and theoretical analysis with an insistence on the need for a new form of democracy. Above all, he asks what democracy means when the people rule but are nowhere to be found.Throughout his career, Rosanvallon has resisted simple categorization. Rosanvallon was originally known as a primary theorist of the "second left", which hoped to stake out a non-Marxist progressive alternative to the irresistible appeal of revolutionary politics. In fact, Rosanvallon revived the theory of "civil society" even before its usage by East European dissidents made it globally popular as a non-statist politics of freedom and pluralism. His ideas have been shaped by a variety of influences, ranging from his work with an influential French union to his teachers Fran{\c c}ois Furet and Claude Lefort.Well known throughout Europe as a historian, political theorist, social critic, and public intellectual, Pierre Rosanvallon was recently elected to a professorship at the Coll{\`e}ge de France, Paris, a position held at various times by Claude L{\'e}vi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu.\ Democracy Past and Future\ begins with Rosanvallon{\textquoteright}s groundbreaking and synthetic lecture that he delivered upon joining this institution. Throughout the volume, Rosanvallon illuminates and invigorates contemporary political and democratic thought.}, url = {http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-13740-9/democracy-past-and-future}, author = {Pierre Rosanvallon}, editor = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {177396, title = {A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Brandeis University Press}, organization = {Brandeis University Press}, address = {Waltham}, abstract = {How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past? These questions are at the heart of this unique investigation of the Treblinka affair that occurred in France in 1966 when Jean-Francois Steiner, a young Jewish journalist, published Treblinka: The Revolt of an Extermination Camp. A cross between a history and a novel, Steiner{\textquoteright}s book narrated the 1943 revolt at one of the major Nazi death camps. Abetted by a scandalous interview he gave, as well as Simone de Beauvoir{\textquoteright}s glowing preface, the book shot to the top of the Parisian bestseller list and prompted a wide-ranging controversy in which both the well-known and the obscure were embroiled. Few had heard of Treblinka, or other death camps, before the affair. The validity of the difference between those killing centers and the larger network of concentration camps making up the universe of Nazi crime had to be fought out in public. The affair also bore on the frequently raised question of the Jews{\textquoteright} response to their dire straits. Moyn delves into events surrounding the publication of Steiner{\textquoteright}s book and the subsequent furor. In the process, he sheds light on a few forgotten but thought-provoking months in French cultural history. Reconstructing the affair in detail, Moyn studies it as a paradigm-shifting controversy that helped change perceptions of the Holocaust in the French public and among French Jews in particular. Then Moyn follows the controversy beyond French borders to the other countries{\textemdash}especially Israel and the United States{\textemdash}where it resonated powerfully. Based on a complete reconstruction of the debate in the press (including Yiddish dailies) and on archives on three continents, Moyn{\textquoteright}s study concludes with the response of the survivors of Treblinka to the controversy and reflects on its place in the longer history of Holocaust memory. Finally, Moyn revisits, in the context of a detailed case study, some of the theoretical controversies the genocide has provoked, including whether it is appropriate to draw universalistic lessons from the victimhood of particular groups.}, url = {http://www.upne.com/1584655089.html}, author = {Samuel Moyn} } @book {177391, title = {Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics}, year = {2005}, publisher = {Cornell University Press}, organization = {Cornell University Press}, address = {Ithaca}, abstract = {The French-Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1906{\textendash}1995) is today remembered as the central moralist of the twentieth century and remains a major presence in the contemporary humanities. In this book, written in lucid and jargon-free prose, Samuel Moyn provides a first and controversial history of the makings of his thought, and especially of his trademark concept of {\textquotedblleft}the other." Restoring Levinas to the intellectually rich and combative atmosphere of interwar Europe, Origins of the Other overturns a number of views that have attained almost stereotypical familiarity. In a careful overview of Levinas{\textquoteright}s career, Moyn documents the philosopher{\textquoteright}s early allegiance to the great German thinker Martin Heidegger. Showing that Levinas crafted an idiosyncratic vision of Judaism, rather than returning to any traditional source, Moyn makes the startling suggestion that Protestant theology, as it spread across the continent in new forms, may have been the most plausible source of Levinas{\textquoteright}s core concept. In Origins of the Other, Moyn offers new readings of the work of a host of crucial thinkers, such as Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, Karl L{\"o}with, Gabriel Marcel, Franz Rosenzweig, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jean Wahl, who help explain why Levinas{\textquoteright}s thought evolved as it did. Moyn concludes by showing how "the other" assumed an ethical bearing (long after its first invention) when Levinas{\textquoteright}s thought crystallized in Cold War debates about intellectual engagement and the relation of morality and politics. An epilogue relates Levinas{\textquoteright}s Totality and Infinity to current philosophical discussions in Europe and America and reflects on the difficult relationship between philosophy and religion in the modern world.}, url = {http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100471690}, author = {Samuel Moyn} }