The Language of Human Rights in West Germany /

The Language of Human Rights in West Germany / / Lora Wildenthal.

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Human rights language is abstract and ahistorical 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 t...

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Wildenthal, Lora,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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