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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Morsink, Johannes (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
United Nations. > General Assembly. > Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly)
1939-1945
Human rights.
Human rights movements.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence.
Civil rights movements.
Human Rights
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Mouvements des droits de l'homme.
LAW > International.
HISTORY > Holocaust.
Civil rights movements
Human rights
Human rights movements
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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