Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches

Brandes, Georg

ISBN 10: 0299324109 / ISBN 13: 9780299324100

Published by University of Wisconsin Press, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299324109
• ISBN 13: 9780299324100
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Georg Brandes was known as the "Father of the Modern Breakthrough" for his influence on Scandinavian writers in the late nineteenth century. A prominent writer, thinker, and speaker, he often examined intellectual topics beyond the literary criticism he was best known for. In this collection, William Banks has translated a number of Brandes's pieces that engage in the concerns of oppressed peoples. By collecting, annotating, and contextualizing these works, Banks reintroduces Brandes as a major progenitor of thinking about the rights of national minorities and the colonized.
Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples includes thirty-five essays and published speeches from the early twenty-first century on subjects as diverse as the Boxer Rebellion, displaced peoples from World War I, Finland's Jewish population, and imperialism. This collection will interest interdisciplinary scholars of human rights as well as those who study Scandinavian intellectual and literary history.

About the Authors

Georg Brandes (1842–1927) was a Danish intellectual, author, and critic, best known for his six-volume Main Currents.

William Banks is the editor and translator of The Great Debate: Nietzsche, Culture, and the Scandinavian Welfare Society by Georg Brandes and Harald Høffding and Human Rights and Oppressed Peoples: Collected Essays and Speeches by Georg Brandes.