The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust : An Endangered Connection /

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Johannes Morsink argues that the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the human rights movement today are direct descendants of revulsion to the Holocaust and the desire to never let it happen again. Much recent scholarship about human rights has severed this link between the Holocaust,...

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Autor principal: Morsink, Johannes (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United Nations. > General Assembly. > Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Human rights movements.
Human rights.
Civil rights movements.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
LAW > International.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the Universal Declaration as postcard
  • The historic moment
  • New historians and the declaration
  • Moyn's dismissal of the connection
  • The 1940s moment of human rights
  • The philosophic moment
  • The moral engine of the system
  • Portable, not territorial
  • Conclusion: enacting the connection.

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