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Genocide : the act as idea / Berel Lang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lang, Berel, author.
- Series:
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
- Pennsylvania studies in human rights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genocide.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (115 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface
- The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- The evil in genocide
- Genocide and comparative evil: counting victims, numbers, degrees
- Disputing'genocide': issues of uniqueness and group-identity
- The pushback and its search for a replacement
- "Genocide" and "holocaust": language as history
- Raphael Lemkin, unsung hero: reparation
- From genocide to group-rights
- Arendt on the evil in genocide: banality's depths
- Genocide-denial
- AfterWords
- Bibliographical notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliografia. Índex.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9780812293647
- 0812293649
- OCLC:
- 1564921771
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