The last utopia : human rights in history
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The last utopia : human rights in history
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- The last utopia : human rights in history
- Title remainder
- human rights in history
- Statement of responsibility
- Samuel Moyn
- Subject
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY / General
- HUMAN RIGHTS
- History
- Human rights
- Human rights -- History
- JUSTICE
- Menschenrecht
- Mänskliga rättigheter -- historia
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Civil Rights
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security | Human Rights
- Menschenrecht
- Electronic books
- Language
- eng
- 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.--From publisher description
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 323.09
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- JC571
- LC item number
- .M88 2010eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
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