Genocide - The Act As Idea

Berel Lang's Genocide: The Act as Idea analyzes and defends the distinctiveness of the concept of genocide as a notable advance in the history of moral and political thinking and practice.

List of contents

Preface

The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

PART I: BETWEEN GENOCIDE AND "GENOCIDE"'

1. The Evil in Genocide

2. Genocide and Comparative Evil: Counting Victims, Numbers, Degrees

3. Disputing ''Genocide'': Issues of Uniqueness and Group-Identity

4. The Pushback and Its Search for a Replacement

PART II: GENOCIDE AS PAST AND PRESENCE

5. "Genocide'' and ''Holocaust'': Language as History

6. Raphael Lemkin, Unsung Hero: Reparation

7. From Genocide to Group-Rights

8. Arendt on the Evil in Genocide: Banality's Depths

9. Genocide-Denial

AfterWords

Bibliographical Notes

Index

About the author

Berel Lang

Summary

Berel Lang's Genocide: The Act as Idea analyzes and defends the distinctiveness of the concept of genocide as a notable advance in the history of moral and political thinking and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Berel Lang
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780812248852
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4885-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education