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| Title | : | Human Rights and the Uses of History |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.17 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1781682631 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-22 |
| Language | : | English |
“There is a struggle for the soul of the human rights movement, and it is being waged in large part through the proxy of genealogy Samuel Moyn is the most influential of the revisionists.” —Philip Alston, Harvard Law ReviewPraise for The Last Utopia:“With unparalleled clarity and originality, Moyn’s hard-hitting, radically revisionist, and persuasive history of human rights provides a bracing historical reconstruction with which scholars, activists, lawyers and anyone interested in the fate of the human rights movement today will have to grapple.” —Mark Mazower, author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Imperialism and the Ideological Origins
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Samuel Moyn is professor of law and history at Harvard University. . He also writes regularly for Foreign Affairs and The Nation. He is the author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History, and Christian Human Rights (2015), among other books, as well as editor of the journal Humanity
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. 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. What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the C
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