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

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Author: Samuel Moyn

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Verso

Published: Feb 2017

Genre: Political Science - Political Freedom & Security - Human Rights

Retail Price: $16.95

Pages: 160

Synopsis

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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