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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: An Endangered Connection

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Holocaust: An Endangered Connection


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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 underappreciated 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.



Table of Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Universal Declaration as Postcard

Part I: The Historic Moment
Chapter One: New Historians and the Declaration
Chapter Two: Moyn’s Dismissal of the Connection
Chapter Three: The 1940s Moment of Human Rights

Part II: The Philosophic Moment
Chapter Four: The Moral Engine of the System
Chapter Five: Portable, Not Territorial

Conclusion: Enacting the Connection
List of References
Index
About the Author



About the Author :

Johannes Morsink is professor emeritus of political philosophy at Drew University and has written three other books on the Universal Declaration, most recently The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion.



Review :

This volume stands as an important addition to the literature and as a reminder of the origins of the modern human rights movement.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781626166288
  • Publisher: Georgetown University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 328
  • Returnable: 01
  • Weight: 730 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1626166285
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Sub Title: An Endangered Connection
  • Width: 152 mm


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