The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust : an endangered connection /
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Author / Creator: | Morsink, Johannes, author. |
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Imprint: | Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, ©2019. |
Description: | ix, 333 pages ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | United Nations. -- General Assembly. -- Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly) Human rights. Human rights movements. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. LAW -- General. Human rights. Human rights movements. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11763159 |
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.