Inventing Human Rights: A History

Author(s): Lynn Hunt

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Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared "all men are created equal" and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. Professor Lynn Hunt questions why it happened then and how such a revelation came to pass. In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, she 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. Hunt traces the amazing rise of rights, their momentous eclipse in the nineteenth century and their culmination as a principle with the United Nations' proclamation in 1948. She finishes this work with a diagnosis of the state of human rights today.

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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).

General Fields

  • : 9780393331998
  • : WW Norton & Co
  • : WW Norton & Co
  • : 0.23
  • : March 2008
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : illustrations
  • : 272
  • : 323.09
  • : Paperback
  • : Lynn Hunt