Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition by Moyn, Samuel

What are the origins of human rights? 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 this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling. Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed "Last Utopia," Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention "From the Hardcover edition."

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Book Title	Human Rights and the Uses of History : Expanded Second Edition
Publisher	Verso Books
Item Length	7.8 in
Publication Year	2017
Format	Trade Paperback
Language	English
Item Height	0.7 in
Author	Samuel Moyn
Genre	Philosophy, Political Science
Topic	Human Rights, Political, Political Freedom
Item Weight	8.3 Oz
Item Width	5.1 in
Number of Pages	208 Pages