Inventing human rights : a history
Lynn Hunt (Author)
In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, 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 empathy
Print Book, English, 2007
First edition View all formats and editions
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2007
Nonfiction
272 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780393060959, 9780393331998, 0393060950, 0393331997
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident
Torrents of emotion: reading novels and imagining equality
Bone of their bone: abolishing torture
They have set a great example: declaring rights
There will be no end of it: the consequences of declaring
Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run
Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948
Notes
Permissions
Index
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