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Civil Society
Civil Society' has been a global catchphrase since the end of the Cold War, and is a hot topic among academics and politicians. Understanding the evolution of this concept in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is vital to its study and this concise and incisive introduction to the transnational history of civil society is essential reading for students and scholars alike.
Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued? The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways. Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented. In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.
The Ethics of Seeing
Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
The Politics of Sociability
The first cultural and political history of German Freemasonry in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Sediments of Time
Sediments of Time features the most important essays by renowned German historian Reinhart Koselleck not previously available in English, several of them essential to his theory of history. The volume sheds new light on Koselleck's crucial concerns, including his theory of sediments of time; his theory of historical repetition, duration, and acceleration; his encounters with philosophical hermeneutics and political and legal thought; his concern with the limits of historical meaning; and his views on historical commemoration, including that of the Second World War and the Holocaust. A critical introduction addresses some of the challenges and potentials of Koselleck's reception in the Anglophone world.
Seeking Peace in the Wake of War
Through a series of interrelated case studies that span the entire continent, this work demonstrates how the everyday experiences of Europeans during these five years shaped the transition of their societies from war to peace.
The Ethics of Seeing
Throughout Germany’s tumultuous twentieth century, photography was an indispensable form of documentation. Whether acting as artists, witnesses, or reformers, both professional and amateur photographers chronicled social worlds through successive periods of radical upheaval. The Ethics of Seeing brings together an international group of scholars to explore the complex relationship between the visual and the historic in German history. Emphasizing the transformation of the visual arena and the ways in which ordinary people made sense of world events, these revealing case studies illustrate photography’s multilayered role as a new form of representation, a means to subjective experience, and a fresh mode of narrating the past.
The Rights of the Roma
Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe's recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.
The Age of Questions
A groundbreaking history of the Big Questions that dominated the nineteenth century In the early nineteenth century, a new age began: the age of questions. In the Eastern and Belgian questions, as much as in the slavery, worker, social, woman, and Jewish questions, contemporaries saw not interrogatives to be answered but problems to be solved. Alexis de Tocqueville, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Frederick Douglass, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rosa Luxemburg, and Adolf Hitler were among the many who put their pens to the task. The Age of Questions asks how the question form arose, what trajectory it followed, and why it provoked such feverish excitement for over a century. Was there a family resemblance bet...
Geschichte der Menschenrechte
Die Menschenrechte gehören zu den unbestrittenen Grundsätzen liberaler Demokratien. Dass alle Menschen »frei und gleich an Würde und Rechten geboren« sind, kommt uns als selbstverständlich vor. In seiner Geschichte der Menschenrechte zeigt Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, wie neu diese Sichtweise ist. Der Glaube an die Universalität der Menschenrechte, so Hoffmann, ist selbst historisch, entstanden aus den sozialen und politischen Konflikten der letzten Jahrhunderte: Kolonialismus und imperiale Weltbeherrschung, Aufstieg des Nationalstaats und einer internationalen Staatenwelt, Globalisierung und neue Ungleichheit. Nur im Rückblick wird erkennbar, dass zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten mit den Menschenrechten oft ganz Gegensätzliches verhandelt wurde. In seiner brillanten Studie zeichnet Hoffmann diese spannungsreiche Entwicklung nach und stellt die unbequeme Frage, ob der Menschenrechtsidealismus des späten 20. Jahrhunderts gegenwärtig an sein Ende kommt.
