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.

Sommario

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

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Bibliographical Notes

Index

Info autore

Berel Lang

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Berel Lang
• Editore: University of pennsylvania pr
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780812248852
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4885-2
• Pagine: 277
• Serie: Pennsylvania Studies in Human
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva