Berel Lang

Genocide

The Act as Idea
Herausgeber: Andreopoulos, George J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248852
• ISBN-10: 0812248856
• Artikelnr.: 44828591

Autorenporträt

Berel Lang, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany, is the author among other books of Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide and, in 2013, Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime
of Genocide
PART I: BETWEEN GENOCIDE AND "GENOCIDE"'
1. The Evil in Genocide
2. Genocide and Comparative Evil: Counting Victims, Numbers, Degrees
3. Disputing ''Genocide'': Issues of Uniqueness and Group-Identity
4. The Pushback and Its Search for a Replacement
PART II: GENOCIDE AS PAST AND PRESENCE
5. "Genocide'' and ''Holocaust'': Language as History
6. Raphael Lemkin, Unsung Hero: Reparation
7. From Genocide to Group-Rights
8. Arendt on the Evil in Genocide: Banality's Depths
9. Genocide-Denial
AfterWords
Bibliographical Notes
Index