Inventing human rights : a history /
By: Hunt, Lynn [author.].
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2007Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780393060959; 9780393060959:; 0393060950; 9780393331998; 0393331997.Subject(s): Human rights -- History | Human rights in literature | Torture -- HistoryDDC classification: 323.09 HUNItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-260) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident -- Torrents of emotion: reading novels and imagining equality -- Bone of their bone: abolishing torture -- They have set a great example: declaring rights -- There will be no end of it: the consequences of declaring -- Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run -- Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948 -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.
In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy.