The Language of Human Rights in West Germany

by Lora Wildenthal

Book Overview

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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812244486
• ISBN13: 9780812244489
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"