Inventing Human Rights: A History

Type

Book

Authors

Lynn Hunt

ISBN 10

0393331997

ISBN 13

9780393331998

Tags

World, Human Rights, Civil Rights & Liberties, History, Civil Rights

Description

“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. 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. - from Amzon

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