Human Rights and the Uses of History

Human Rights and the Uses of History

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Publisher's 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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Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

Book information

ISBN: 9781781682630
Publisher: Verso US
Imprint: Verso
Pub date:
DEWEY: 323
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 302g
Height: 204mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 18mm