Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition by Moyn, Samuel

Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition

A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rightsWhat are the origins of human rights?...
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Author: Samuel Moyn
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Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition by Moyn, Samuel

Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition

€27,74

Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition

€27,74
Author: Samuel Moyn
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rights

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.



Author: Samuel Moyn
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/29/2017
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781781689004

About the Author
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.


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