The last utopia : human rights in history

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Title
"The last utopia : human rights in history"
Statement of Responsibility
Samuel Moyn
Publisher
  • Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Publication Year
  • 2010
Book size
22 cm

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Notes

Summary: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.--Publisher description

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index

Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1130282272548779520
  • NII Book ID
    BB04785482
  • ISBN
    9780674048720
  • LCCN
    2010012998
  • Web Site
    https://lccn.loc.gov/2010012998
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    en
  • Place of Publication
    • Cambridge, Mass.
  • Classification
  • Data Source
    • CiNii Books
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