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9780511921667
Serie:
Human rights in history
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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore
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Introduction: genealogies of human rights
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Part I. The Emergence of Human Rights Regimes: gt1. The end of civilization and the rise of human rights: the mid-twentieth century disjuncture
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Part II. Postwar Universalism and Legal Theory: 4. dtPersonalism, community, and the origins of human rights
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Part III. Human Rights, State Socialism, and Dissent: 7. Embracing and contesting: the Soviet Union and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948-1958
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Part IV. Genocide, Humanitarianism, and the Limits of Law: 10. Toward world law? Human rights and the failure of the legalist paradigm of war
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Part V. Human Rights, Sovereignty, and the Global Condition: 13. African nationalists and human rights, 1940s-1970s
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ISBN 9780521194266
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ISBN 9780521142571
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Human rights in the twentieth century Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011 ISBN 9780521194266
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ISBN 9780521142571
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ISBN 0521194261
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ISBN 0521142571
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Politologie
Schlagwort(e):
Menschenrecht
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Geschichte 1944-1990
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511921667
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Mehr zum Autor:
Hoffmann, Stefan-Ludwig 1967-
