|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910779477003321 |
|
|
Autore |
Wildenthal Lora <1965-> |
|
|
Titolo |
The language of human rights in West Germany [[electronic resource] /] / Lora Wildenthal |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-283-89889-6 |
0-8122-0729-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (289 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights |
Pennsylvania studies in human rights |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Human rights advocacy - Germany (West) - History |
Human rights - Germany (West) |
German language - Political aspects - Germany (West) - History |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Human Rights Activism in Occupied and Early West Germany: The Case of the German League for Human Rights -- 2. Rudolf Laun and "German Human Rights" in Occupied and Early West Germany -- 3. Human Rights Activism as Domestic Politics: The International League for Human Rights, West German Amnesty, and the Humanist Union Confront Adenauer's West Germany -- 4. "German Human Rights" Enter the Mainstream: The Case of Otto Kimminich -- 5. Human Rights for Women across Cultural Lines: Terre des Femmes -- Conclusion -- A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Human rights language is abstract and a historical because advocates intend human rights to be valid at all times and places. Yet the abstract universality of human rights discourse is a problem for historians, who seek to understand language in a particular time and place. Lora Wildenthal explores the tension between the universal and the historically specific by examining the language of human rights in West Germany between World War II and unification. In the aftermath of Nazism, genocide, and Allied occupation, and amid Cold War and national division, West Germans were especially obliged to confront |
|
|
|
|