The last utopia : human rights in history Samuel Moyn
ชื่อเรื่องที่แตกต่าง
Human rights in history
ISBN
9780674064348(pbk.)
พิมพ์ลักษณ์
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
เลขหมู่
JC571 M937 2012
ครั้งที่พิมพ์
1st Belknap Press of Harvard University Press pbk. ed
ลักษณะทางกายภาพ
337 p. ; 21 cm.
หมายเหตุ
Originally published in hardcover in 2010
หมายเหตุ
Contents: Humanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- Epilogue: The burden of morality.
หมายเหตุ
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
245 14 ^aThe last utopia :^bhuman rights in history /^cSamuel Moyn
246 30 ^aHuman rights in history
250 ^a1st Belknap Press of Harvard University Press pbk. ed
260 ^aCambridge, Mass. :^bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, ^c2012.
300 ^a337 p. ;^c21 cm.
500 ^aOriginally published in hardcover in 2010
504 ^aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 311-321) and index.
505 00 ^aHumanity before human rights --^tDeath from birth --^tWhy anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement --^tThe purity of this struggle --^tInternational law and human rights --^gEpilogue: The burden of morality.
520 ^aHuman 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