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Auteur(s) : Moyn, Samuel
Titre(s) : The last utopia [Texte imprimé] : human rights in history / Samuel Moyn
Publication : Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (337 p.) ; 22 cm
Comprend : 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
; The burden of morality ; "Human rights" in Anglo-American news ; Human rights
in the 1940s ; Human rights between 1968-1978
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Droits de l'homme -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674048720. - ISBN 0674048725 (hardback) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42388141q
Notice n° :
FRBNF42388141
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