Inventing Human Rights: A History

Title: Inventing Human Rights: A History
Author: Lynn Hunt
History: 1700463
ISBN: 9780393331998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2008
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Presumed to be 1st as edition is unstated
Number of Pages: 272
Section: Political Science | Human Rights
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.