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Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition
Samuel Moyn
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781689004
SKU
V9781781689004
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About Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He is the author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, and Christian Human Rights (2015), among other books, as well as editor of the journal Humanity. He also writes regularly for Foreign Affairs and The Nation.
Reviews for Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition
An intensely readable journey.
Phillipe Sands
Financial TImes
A penetrating, provocative look at philosophical and political phrases that pepper current political discourse, such as "human dignity" and "humanitarian intervention."
Publishers Weekly
There is a struggle for the soul of the human rights movement, and it is being waged in large part through the proxy of ... Read more
Phillipe Sands
Financial TImes
A penetrating, provocative look at philosophical and political phrases that pepper current political discourse, such as "human dignity" and "humanitarian intervention."
Publishers Weekly
There is a struggle for the soul of the human rights movement, and it is being waged in large part through the proxy of ... Read more