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.
- ISBN10 0393069729
- ISBN13 9780393069723
- Publish Date 17 April 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint W. W. Norton & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 272
- Language English