Author: MOYN, SAMUEL
Title: Human Rights and the Uses of History
Description: VERSO. Hardcover. Pp: 160. What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. 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.nHaving staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimedLast Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions"including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention. ISBN: 9781781682630. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781781682630
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Title: Human Rights and the Uses of History
Description: VERSO. Hardcover. Pp: 160. What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. 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.nHaving staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimedLast Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions"including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention. ISBN: 9781781682630. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781781682630
Price: EUR 12.50 = appr. US$ 13.59 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2054654
- Book number: 2054654
See more books from our catalog: Politiek