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Human Rights and the Uses of History

By Samuel Moyn

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2014
ISBN
1781682631, 9781781682630
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
356 kB (364167 bytes)
Pages
160\0
Time added
2014-12-22 16:01:18

Description

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling. Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed Last Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions—including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention

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