Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt, "Inventing Human Rights: A History"
ISBN: 0393331997, 0393060950 | 2008 | EPUB | 272 pages | 512 KB
“A tour de force.”―Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.