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Human Rights and the Uses of History Expanded Second Edition

Moyn Samuel
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781781689004
Publisert
2017-08-29
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Verso Books
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232 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Moyn Samuel

Biographical note

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.

Human Rights and the Uses of History Expanded Second Edition

Moyn Samuel
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
Moyn Samuel
Heftet / 2017 / Engelsk
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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 genealogy ... Samuel Moyn ... is the most influential of the revisionists.

- Philip Alston, Harvard Law Review

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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A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rights
Concise and comprehensive: Six chapters examine the emergence of the concept of human rights from various angles

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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 genealogy ... Samuel Moyn ... is the most influential of the revisionists.

- Philip Alston, Harvard Law Review

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.
Les mer
A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rights
Concise and comprehensive: Six chapters examine the emergence of the concept of human rights from various angles

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781781689004
Publisert
2017-08-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Verso Books
Vekt
232 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter
Moyn Samuel

Biographical note

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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