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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Morsink, Johannes (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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