More Details

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.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I Between Genocide and "Genocide"
• 1. Evil in Genocide
• 2. Genocide and Comparative Evil: Counting Victims, Numbers, Degrees
• 3. Disputing "Genocide": Issues of Uniqueness and Group-Identity
• 4. Pushback and Its Search for a Replacement
• pt. 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.

Author/Creator:

Lang, Berel , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Genocide: the act as idea [by Lang, B.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Genocide : The Act as Idea [by Lang, B.] (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., ©2016 — ISBN 9780812248852)

Related Series:

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Subjects:

Genocide

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2016).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

HV6322.7 .L36 2017eb

ISBNs:

9780812293647 (electronic book)
0812293649 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

966386171

Other Control Numbers:

EBC4670527 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13235290