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Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
Author | : Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2015-09-11 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107107649 |
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Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
The Last Utopia
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2012-03-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674256521 |
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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. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. 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.
The Slave Trade and the Origins of International Human Rights Law
Author | : Jenny S. Martinez |
Publsiher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2012-01-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195391626 |
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There is a broad consensus among scholars that the idea of human rights was a product of the Enlightenment but that a self-conscious and broad-based human rights movement focused on international law only began after World War II. In this book, the nineteenth century's absence is conspicuous - few have considered that era seriously, much less written books on it. But as this author shows, the foundation of the movement that we know today was a product of one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade.
The Social Origins of Human Rights
Author | : Luis van Isschot |
Publsiher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780299299842 |
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Offering deep insight to the lives of human rights activists in a conflict zone, against the backdrop of major historical changes that shaped Latin America in the twentieth century, this book illuminates the critical role of human rights organizations in bringing violence to public attention and analyzing its causes and consequences.
The Evolution of International Human Rights
Author | : Paul Gordon Lauren |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081221854X |
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This book focuses on one of the most significant issues of our time-international human rights. Using the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, The Author explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of traditional structures of Authority, gender abuse, racial prejudice, class divisions and slavery, colonial empires, and claims of national sovereignty into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the way governments treat their own people is a matter of international concern -- and sets the goal of human rights for all peoples and all nations.
The Contentious History of the International Bill of Human Rights
Author | : Christopher N. J. Roberts |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781107014633 |
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This book shows how a series of contradictions worked their way into the International Bill of Human Rights.
Myth of Universal Human Rights
Author | : David N. Stamos |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781317255789 |
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In this groundbreaking and provocative new book, philosopher of science David N. Stamos challenges the current conceptions of human rights, and argues that the existence of universal human rights is a modern myth. Using an evolutionary analysis to support his claims, Stamos traces the origin of the myth from the English Levellers of 1640s London to our modern day. Theoretical defenses of the belief in human rights are critically examined, including defenses of nonconsensus concepts. In the final chapter Stamos develops a method of naturalized normative ethics, which he then applies to topics routinely dealt with in terms of human rights. In all of this Stamos hopes to show that there is a better way of dealing with matters of ethics and justice, a way that involves applying the whole of our evolved moral being, rather than only parts of it, and that is fiction-free.
Human Rights and the Uses of History
Author | : Samuel Moyn |
Publsiher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-06-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781781682630 |
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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. Having staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed Last Utopia, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions—including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention