Human Rights and the Uses of History

Name: Human Rights and the Uses of History
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ISBN: 9781781682630

ISBN-10: 1781682631

ISBN-13: 9781781682630

Edition: 2014

Authors: Samuel Moyn

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Where did human rights come from? 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 a series of reflective and critical essays, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading theorists of human rights, who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporary contexts of their narratives.Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed The Last Utopia, Moyn's new volume takes issue with his intellectual opponents--including, especially, those seeking justification for humanitarian intervention.

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/17/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 5.40" wide x 7.97" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.638
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.