David Rieff
Biographic Data
| ID | 967260 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Rieff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Rieff |
| SIGNATURE | RIEFF D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
And if there was also a duty to forget, how would we think about history then
Is remembrance an absolute moral duty or is it better thought of in more ethically constricted pragmatic and empirical terms? This essay argues that both individuals and societies should strive for remembrance where possible, but accept that there are times and places where more forgetting is the only safe choice to make. One may hope that at some point in the future the need to remember will sweep away a prudential decision to forget, but while …
At the Same Time
At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag. With a preface by David Rieff. The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's preeminent write…
At the Point of a Gun
On the wishful thinking of eminent persons
Fables of Redemption in an Age of Barbarism
IMAGINE a world in which there were 27 major wars, tens of millions of refugees who have crossed international borders, some remaining in squalid camps, some constantly on the move, tens of millions more living rough after having been displaced within their own countries, and hundreds of millions moving, or attempting to move, from the poor world to the rich world in the greatest mass migration to be seen for centuries. Imagine a world in which m…
Humanitarianism in Crisis
THE HUMANITARIAN WORLD emerged from the 1990S both sad dened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises-as when 2 million people crossed from Rwanda into Zaire in 1994, or when 8oo,ooo Kosovar Albanians were forcibly deported from the province by Serb forces in the spring of 1999. Even more unnerving was the sense that, often despite the relief groups' own best efforts, the…
The Millennium Assembly
In retrospect, it is difficult to understand why United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his senior advisers (most notably the Canadian academic John Ruggie, who masterminded the affair) were so determined to organize a summit conference of world leaders and representatives of nongovemmental organizations (NGOs) on the occasion of the first General Assembly of the new millennium. [1] In many ways, the 1990s was a decade of peacekeeping fa…
The Crusaders
Research Article| June 01 2000 The Crusaders: Moral Principles, Strategic Interests, and Military Force David Rieff David Rieff David Rieff is deputy editor of World Policy Journal. He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and the co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/074027…
Moral Imperatives and Political Realities
Thomas Weiss's essay is a fine contribution to the current conversation within the humanitarian international, but there is a worrying absence of a broader, extra-humanitarian context in the discussion. There is no question that “Human Rightsism” has become the dominant political ideology of the international new class, and the common currency of UN treaties, academic conferences, and charitable foundation mission statements. What remains open to…
Charity on the Rampage
The Facts of the Case
Case Study in Ethnic Strife
Slaughterhouse
Cuba Refrozen
Denying Moral Equivalence
From Exiles to Immigrants
Every diaspora judges itself, whether secretly or ostentatiously, to be both unique and uniquely sinned against. In this, the three quarters of a million Cuban-Americans of South Florida are any thing but exceptional. But like the Jews, the Armenians, and the White Russians before them, the Miami Cubans have tended to see themselves, both in their qualities and in their historical grievances, as sui generis. The common currency of exile is memory…
Slaughterhouse
Humanitarianism in Crisis
THE HUMANITARIAN WORLD emerged from the 1990S both sad dened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises-as when 2 million people crossed from Rwanda into Zaire in 1994, or when 8oo,ooo Kosovar Albanians were forcibly deported from the province by Serb forces in the spring of 1999. Even more unnerving was the sense that, often despite the relief groups' own best efforts, the…
Charity on the Rampage
At the Point of a Gun
Case Study in Ethnic Strife
And if there was also a duty to forget, how would we think about history then
Is remembrance an absolute moral duty or is it better thought of in more ethically constricted pragmatic and empirical terms? This essay argues that both individuals and societies should strive for remembrance where possible, but accept that there are times and places where more forgetting is the only safe choice to make. One may hope that at some point in the future the need to remember will sweep away a prudential decision to forget, but while …
Moral Imperatives and Political Realities
Thomas Weiss's essay is a fine contribution to the current conversation within the humanitarian international, but there is a worrying absence of a broader, extra-humanitarian context in the discussion. There is no question that “Human Rightsism” has become the dominant political ideology of the international new class, and the common currency of UN treaties, academic conferences, and charitable foundation mission statements. What remains open to…
From Exiles to Immigrants
Every diaspora judges itself, whether secretly or ostentatiously, to be both unique and uniquely sinned against. In this, the three quarters of a million Cuban-Americans of South Florida are any thing but exceptional. But like the Jews, the Armenians, and the White Russians before them, the Miami Cubans have tended to see themselves, both in their qualities and in their historical grievances, as sui generis. The common currency of exile is memory…
On the wishful thinking of eminent persons
The Crusaders
Research Article| June 01 2000 The Crusaders: Moral Principles, Strategic Interests, and Military Force David Rieff David Rieff David Rieff is deputy editor of World Policy Journal. He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and the co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/074027…
Cuba Refrozen
Denying Moral Equivalence
Denying Moral Equivalence
From Exiles to Immigrants
Every diaspora judges itself, whether secretly or ostentatiously, to be both unique and uniquely sinned against. In this, the three quarters of a million Cuban-Americans of South Florida are any thing but exceptional. But like the Jews, the Armenians, and the White Russians before them, the Miami Cubans have tended to see themselves, both in their qualities and in their historical grievances, as sui generis. The common currency of exile is memory…
Slaughterhouse
Cuba Refrozen
Charity on the Rampage
The Facts of the Case
Case Study in Ethnic Strife
Moral Imperatives and Political Realities
Thomas Weiss's essay is a fine contribution to the current conversation within the humanitarian international, but there is a worrying absence of a broader, extra-humanitarian context in the discussion. There is no question that “Human Rightsism” has become the dominant political ideology of the international new class, and the common currency of UN treaties, academic conferences, and charitable foundation mission statements. What remains open to…
The Crusaders
Research Article| June 01 2000 The Crusaders: Moral Principles, Strategic Interests, and Military Force David Rieff David Rieff David Rieff is deputy editor of World Policy Journal. He is the author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and the co-editor of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google World Policy Journal (2000) 17 (2): 39–47. https://doi.org/10.1215/074027…
The Millennium Assembly
In retrospect, it is difficult to understand why United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and his senior advisers (most notably the Canadian academic John Ruggie, who masterminded the affair) were so determined to organize a summit conference of world leaders and representatives of nongovemmental organizations (NGOs) on the occasion of the first General Assembly of the new millennium. [1] In many ways, the 1990s was a decade of peacekeeping fa…
On the wishful thinking of eminent persons
Fables of Redemption in an Age of Barbarism
IMAGINE a world in which there were 27 major wars, tens of millions of refugees who have crossed international borders, some remaining in squalid camps, some constantly on the move, tens of millions more living rough after having been displaced within their own countries, and hundreds of millions moving, or attempting to move, from the poor world to the rich world in the greatest mass migration to be seen for centuries. Imagine a world in which m…
Humanitarianism in Crisis
THE HUMANITARIAN WORLD emerged from the 1990S both sad dened and chastened. Again and again nonprofit and UN personnel had been overwhelmed by the magnitude of particular crises-as when 2 million people crossed from Rwanda into Zaire in 1994, or when 8oo,ooo Kosovar Albanians were forcibly deported from the province by Serb forces in the spring of 1999. Even more unnerving was the sense that, often despite the relief groups' own best efforts, the…
At the Point of a Gun
At the Same Time
At the Same Time contains sixteen illuminating essays by Susan Sontag. With a preface by David Rieff. The sixteen essays gathered here represent the last pieces written by Susan Sontag in the years before her death in 2004. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, these essays encompass the themes that dominated life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's preeminent write…
And if there was also a duty to forget, how would we think about history then
Is remembrance an absolute moral duty or is it better thought of in more ethically constricted pragmatic and empirical terms? This essay argues that both individuals and societies should strive for remembrance where possible, but accept that there are times and places where more forgetting is the only safe choice to make. One may hope that at some point in the future the need to remember will sweep away a prudential decision to forget, but while …
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