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UNINA9910449890703321 |
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Koskenniemi Martti |
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The gentle civilizer of nations : the rise and fall of international law, 1870-1960 / / Martti Koskenniemi [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
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1-107-11498-5 |
1-280-41888-5 |
0-511-17527-2 |
0-511-04000-8 |
0-511-15553-0 |
0-511-32530-4 |
0-511-49422-X |
0-511-05056-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 569 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures ; ; 14 |
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Disciplina |
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International law - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 518-558) and index. |
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The legal conscience of the civilized world Ž; 2 Sovereignty: a gift of civilization ... international lawyers and imperialism, 1870...1914; 3 International law as philosophy: Germany 1871...1933; 4 International law as sociology: French solidarismŽ 1871...1950; 5 Lauterpacht: the Victorian tradition in international law; 6 Out of Europe: Carl Schmitt, Hans Morgenthau, and the turn to international relationsŽ; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index |
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International law was born from the impulse to 'civilize' late nineteenth-century attitudes towards race and society, argues Martti Koskenniemi in this extensive study of the rise and fall of modern international law. In a work of wide-ranging intellectual scope, now available for the first time in paperback, Koskenniemi traces the emergence of a liberal sensibility relating to international matters in the late nineteenth century, and its subsequent decline after the Second World War. He combines legal analysis, historical and political critique |
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and semi-biographical studies of key figures (including Hans Kelsen, Hersch Lauterpacht, Carl Schmitt and Hans Morgenthau); he also considers the role of crucial institutions (the Institut de droit international, the League of Nations). His discussion of legal and political realism at American law schools ends in a critique of post-1960 'instrumentalism'. This book provides a unique reflection on the possibility of critical international law today. |
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UNINA9910777730103321 |
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Morgenstern Mira |
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Conceiving a nation : the development of political discourse in the Hebrew Bible / / Mira Morgenstern |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2009] |
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©2009 |
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0-271-04964-2 |
0-271-03653-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Hebrew language - Discourse analysis |
Rhetoric - Political aspects |
Political oratory |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [203]-222) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Joseph: The Politics of Dreaming -- 2. Moses: The Politics of Alienation -- 3. Ruth: The Politics of Difference -- 4. Jotham: The Politics of Parable -- 5. Samson: The Politics of Riddling -- 6. Esther: The Politics of Metaphor -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a fluid and ongoing process of negotiation |
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open to a range of livable solutions—is actually rooted in the Bible. This book draws attention to the contribution that the Bible makes to political discourse about the nation. The Bible is particularly well suited to this open-ended discourse because of its own nature as a text whose ambiguity and laconic quality render it constantly open to new interpretations and applicable to changing circumstances. The Bible offers a pluralistic understanding of different models of political development for different nations, and it depicts altering concepts of national identity over time. In this book, Morgenstern reads the Bible as the source of a dynamic critique of the ideas that are conventionally considered to be fundamental to national identity, treating in successive chapters the ethnic (Ruth), the cultural (Samson), the political (Jotham), and the territorial (Esther). Throughout, she explores a number of common themes, such as the relationship of women to political authority and the “strangeness” of Israelite political existence. In the Conclusion, she elucidates how biblical analysis can aid in recognition of modern claims to nationhood. |
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