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100	1		_aMoyn, Samuel. _99849
245	1	4	_aLast utopia : human rights in history / _bhuman rights in history / _cSamuel Moyn.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, _c2010.
300			_a337 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-321) and index.
505	0		_aHumanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- Epilogue: The burden of morality.
520			_aHuman 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.--Publisher information.
650			_aHuman rights _xHistory _99851
650			_aHuman rights _xMoral aspects _99852
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