A Gateway Between a Distant God and a Cruel World: The Contribution of Jewish German-Speaking Scholars to International Law - Couverture rigide

Paz, Reut Yael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 900422873X ISBN 13 : 9789004228733

Editeur : Martinus Nijhoff, 2012

Synopsis

Through a collective biographical methodology of four scholars (Hans Kelsen, Hans J. Morgenthau, Hersch Lauterpacht and Erich Kaufmann) this book investigates how Jewish identity and intellectual ties to Judaic civilisation in the German speaking and legal context influenced international law. By using biblical constitutive metaphors, it argues that Jewish German lawyers inherited, inter alia, a particular Jewish legal approach that 'made' their understanding of the law as a means to reach God. The overarching argument is that because of their Jewish heritage, Jewish scholars inherited the endorsement of earthly particularism for the sake of universalism and the other way around: for the sake of universalism, humanity's differences need to be solved through the law.

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À propos de l'auteur

Reut Yael Paz, Ph.D. (2009) in international law/politics. Paz has conducted her research on the 'Jewish question' within the international legal framework at the University of Helsinki, Bar Ilan University (Israel) and at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Martinus Nijhoff
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 900422873X
• ISBN 13: 9789004228733
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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