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HOPGOOD, STEPHEN
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Moral authority, modernity and the politics of the sacred
/ Hopgood, Stephen
Hopgood, Stephen
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2009.
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Capitalist modernity's paradox is to erode explicitly the social capital it relies on implicitly to mobilize people to act in concert when they share neither an identity nor an interest. Monetization and rules are the exemplary mechanisms for realizing modernity's aim of commensurability between all social qualities. Simmel helps us see this. But these abstractions create an authority vacuum. The experience of Amnesty International, emblem of modernity, is an example of efforts to overcome this. A close analysis of Amnesty shows that its authority is derived not from Kantian universalism but from a representation of the sacred that serves as a non-modern foundation for modernity. Even as attempts are made to profane this moral authority through commodification and politicization, we can see in the universalization of the Holocaust narrative a renewed effort at creating a singular global memory for humanity as a whole.
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Human Rights
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Modernity
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Amnesty International
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Holocaust
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Moral Authority
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Simmel
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Moral authority, modernity and the politics of the sacred
/ Hopgood, Stephen
Hopgood, Stephen
Journal Article
0 Rating(s) & 0 Review(s)
Publication
2009.
Summary/Abstract
Capitalist modernity's paradox is to erode explicitly the social capital it relies on implicitly to mobilize people to act in concert when they share neither an identity nor an interest. Monetization and rules are the exemplary mechanisms for realizing modernity's aim of commensurability between all social qualities. Simmel helps us see this. But these abstractions create an authority vacuum. The experience of Amnesty International, emblem of modernity, is an example of efforts to overcome this. A close analysis of Amnesty shows that its authority is derived not from Kantian universalism but from a representation of the sacred that serves as a non-modern foundation for modernity. Even as attempts are made to profane this moral authority through commodification and politicization, we can see in the universalization of the Holocaust narrative a renewed effort at creating a singular global memory for humanity as a whole.
Key Words
Human Rights
;
Modernity
;
Amnesty International
;
Holocaust
;
Moral Authority
;
Simmel
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