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Inventing Human Rights: A History Book

Inventing Human Rights Traces the rise of human rights, their momentous eclipse in the nineteenth century and their culmination as a principle with the United Nations' proclamation in 1948. This book grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Foyles

    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.

  • ASDA

    Traces the rise of human rights their momentous eclipse in the nineteenth century and their culmination as a principle with the United Nations' proclamation in 1948. This book grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy.

  • Blackwell

    In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth, and the spread of...

  • BookDepository

    Inventing Human Rights : Paperback : WW Norton & Co : 9780393331998 : 0393331997 : 09 Dec 2011 : "A tour de force.""-Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review"

  • 0393331997
  • 9780393331998
  • Lynn Hunt
  • 25 April 2008
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • First Thus
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