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.
| ISBN: | 9780393331998 |
| Publication date: | 25th April 2008 |
| Author: | Lynn Hunt |
| Publisher: | W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Genres: |
Human rights, civil rights |
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.
Inventing Human Rights features in the following genres: Human rights, civil rights
Inventing Human Rights is available in Paperback, Ebook
Inventing Human Rights was written by Lynn Hunt and published by W.W. Norton and Company an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Inventing Human Rights has 272 pages
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