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Human Rights and the Uses of History

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Description for Human Rights and the Uses of History Hardcover. The past, present and future of the politics of human rights. Num Pages: 175 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Verso Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781682630
SKU
V9781781682630
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About Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn is James Bryce Professor of European Legal History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 2001. His previous books include The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History.

Reviews for Human Rights and the Uses of History
With unparalleled clarity and originality, Moyn's hard-hitting, radically revisionist, and persuasive history of human rights provides a bracing historical reconstruction with which scholars, activists, lawyers and anyone interested in the fate of the human rights movement today will have to grapple.
Mark Mazower, author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Imperialism and the ... Read more

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