Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity

by Massimiliano Tomba

Book Overview

Scholars commonly take the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, written during the French Revolution, as the starting point for the modern conception of human rights. According to the Declaration, the rights of man are held to be universal, at all times and all places. But as recent crises around migrants and refugees have made obvious, this idea, sacred as it might be among human rights advocates, is exhausted. It's long past time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197577237
• ISBN13: 9780197577233
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.1"