Overview
- Summary
- 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, the Universal Declaration, and contemporary human rights activism in favor of seeing the 1970s as the era of genesis. Morsink forcefully presents his case that the Universal Declaration was indeed a meaningful though under appreciated document for the human rights movement and that the declaration and its significance cannot be divorced from the Holocaust. He reexamines this linkage through the working papers of the commission that drafted the declaration as well as other primary sources. This work seeks to reset scholarly understandings of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the foundations of the contemporary human rights movement.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2019]
©2019 - Contents
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Introduction Universal Declaration as postcard
Part I. Historic moment
New historians and the declaration
Moyn's dismissal of the connection
The 1940s moment of human rights
Part II. The philosophic moment
Moral engine of the system
Portable, not territorial
Conclusion Enacting the connection. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-323) and index.
Introduction Universal Declaration as postcard -- Part I. Historic moment -- New historians and the declaration -- Moyn's dismissal of the connection -- The 1940s moment of human rights -- Part II. The philosophic moment -- Moral engine of the system -- Portable, not territorial -- Conclusion Enacting the connection.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781626166295
1626166293
9781626166288
1626166285 - Physical Description
- ix, 333 pages ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Human rights. Human rights movements. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Universal Declaration of Human Rights (United Nations. General Assembly) LAW--General. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) United Nations.--General Assembly.--Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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