Inventing human rights :
Hunt, Lynn Avery.
Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt. - New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2008. - 272 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.
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.
9780393331998 (pbk.) 0393331997 (pbk.)
GBA817632 bnb
014519323 Uk
Human rights--History.
Human rights in literature.
Torture--History.
JC585 / .H89 2008
323.09
Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt. - New York ; London : W. W. Norton, 2008. - 272 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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 -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run.
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.
9780393331998 (pbk.) 0393331997 (pbk.)
GBA817632 bnb
014519323 Uk
Human rights--History.
Human rights in literature.
Torture--History.
JC585 / .H89 2008
323.09