Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition

by Samuel Moyn

Book Overview

A pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rights

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781689008
• ISBN13: 9781781689004
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"