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Berel Lang's Genocide: The Act as Idea analyzes and defends the distinctiveness of the concept of genocide as a notable advance in the history of moral and political thinking and practice.
PrefaceThe United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of GenocidePART I: BETWEEN GENOCIDE AND "GENOCIDE"'1. The Evil in Genocide2. Genocide and Comparative Evil: Counting Victims, Numbers, Degrees3. Disputing ''Genocide'': Issues of Uniqueness and Group-Identity4. The Pushback and Its Search for a ReplacementPART II: GENOCIDE AS PAST AND PRESENCE5. "Genocide'' and ''Holocaust'': Language as History6. Raphael Lemkin, Unsung Hero: Reparation7. From Genocide to Group-Rights8. Arendt on the Evil in Genocide: Banality's Depths9. Genocide-DenialAfterWordsBibliographical NotesIndex