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008			080211r20082007nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780393331998 (pbk.)
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035			_a(OCoLC)181139374
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049			_aSZTA
050		4	_aJC585 _b.H89 2008
082	0	4	_a323.09 _222
100	1		_aHunt, Lynn Avery.
245	1	0	_aInventing human rights : _ba history / _cLynn Hunt.
260			_aNew York ; _aLondon : _bW. W. Norton, _c2008.
263			_a200805
300			_a272 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: 2007.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_a"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.
520			_aIn 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.
600			_2on order
650		0	_aHuman rights _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman rights in literature.
650		0	_aTorture _xHistory. _914168
942			_2lcc _cBOOK