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Human rights and the uses of history / Samuel Moyn.

Moyn, Samuel. (Author).

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781781682630
  • Physical Description: xx, 155 p. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: London: Verso, 2014.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface -- 1. On the genealogy of morals -- 2. The suprising origins of human dignity -- 3. Spectacular wrongs: on humanitarian intervention -- 4. Of deserts and promised lands: on international courts -- 5. Human rights in history -- 6. The intersection with holocaust memory -- 7. Torture and taboo -- 8. Soft sells: on Liberal internationalism -- Epilogue: The future of human rights -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject: Human rights > History.
Humanitarian intervention > History.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

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Lansdowne Library JC 571 M87 2014 (Text) 26040003007255 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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