Not Enough Human Rights in an Unequal World

Name: Not Enough Human Rights in an Unequal World
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ISBN: 9780674737563

ISBN-10: 0674737563

ISBN-13: 9780674737563

Edition: 2018

Authors: Samuel Moyn

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The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has emerged as the dominant force in national and global economies. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of a broader social and economic justice. In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2018
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/10/2018
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Pierre Rosanvallon is a professor at the Collï¿½ge de France, Paris, where he holds the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. Among many other books, he is the author of The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution.Samuel Moyn is professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of two books, including Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics.