Inventing Human Rights

A History

Lynn Hunt (UCLA)

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Norton
08 January 2010

History: specific events & topics; Politics & government; Human rights

"""A tour de force."" —Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review

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 far and wide. Hunt also shows the continued relevance of human rights in today's world.

""This is a wonderful history of the emergence and development of the powerful idea of human rights, written by one of the leading historians of our time."" —Amartya Sen

""Hunt's survey is fast-paced, provocative and ultimately optimistic. Declarations, she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us want to become the people they claim we are."" —The New Yorker"

By: Lynn Hunt (UCLA)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 211mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 211g
ISBN: 9780393331998
ISBN 10: 0393331997
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 08 January 2010
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

LYNN HUNT is the Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History at UCLA. She is the author of many works and the co-author of Telling the Truth About History (ISBN 978 0 393 31286 7).

Reviews for Inventing Human Rights: A History

As Americans begin to hold their leaders accountable for the mistakes made in the war against terror, this book ought to serve as a guide to thinking about one of the most serious mistakes of all, the belief that America can win that war by revoking the Declaration that brought the nation into being. -- Alan Wolfe - Commonweal Rich, elegant, and persuasive. -- London Review of Books This is a wonderful story of the emergence and development of the powerful idea of human rights, written by one of the leading historians of our time. -- Amartya Sen A provocative and engaging history of the political impact of human rights. -- Gary J. Bass - New Republic Fast-paced, provocative, and ultimately optimistic. Declarations, she writes, are not empty words but transformative; they make us want to become the people they claim we are. -- The New Yorker Elegant... intriguing, if not audacious... Hunt is an astute historian. -- Joanna Bourke - Harper's