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The last utopia : human rights in history / Samuel Moyn

Moyn, Samuel, 1972-

1. Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press paperback ed.

Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2012

337 S. : graph. Darst. ; 21 cm

Englisch

Humanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- Epilogue: The burden of morality -- Appendixes. "Human rights" in Anglo-American news ; Human rights in the 1940s ; Human rights between 1968-1978.

Includes bibliographical references and index

eb 20240324 ; 2 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

Kritik in: From the rights of man to human rights? : Two critical remarks on "The Last Utopia" / Lacroix, Justine

978-0-674-06434-8 ((pbk.) £14.95); 978-0-674-04872-0 (Hbk); 0-674-06434-8 (Pbk : £14.95)

978-0-674-05854-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff); 0-674-05854-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

015986234

9780674064348

OCoLC: 878401046     

OCoLC: 878401046 (aus SWB)     

CC 7200  | PR 2213  | MD 4710      Ähnliche Literatur

JC571

323.09

Basisklassifikation: 89.42 (Staat und Bürger) ; 86.85 (Menschenrechte)

*Menschenrecht ; Geschichte     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Human rights -- History ; Human rights

Human rights / History

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.--From publisher description

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