Inventing Human Rights
A History
WW Norton · Print & ebook · March 25, 2008
“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today?
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- Who it’s for
- A compact history that links rights-talk to social change without losing the human scale.
- Genres
- Human Rights, Legal History, Political Philosophy
- Published
- WW Norton, March 25, 2008
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“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth.
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She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.
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A compact history that links rights-talk to social change without losing the human scale.
Come here for
- human rights as cultural history
- clear social theory with historical sweep
Expect
- modern history, not just legal history
- an explanatory, steady narrative
Where it sits
| Human Rights | 84% |
|---|---|
| Legal History | 25% |
| Political Philosophy | 22% |
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Publisher categories
- Human Rights
- Authors
- Lynn Hunt
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- March 25, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Human Rights