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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History

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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
19.99 €
Today, human rights allow us to speak of international justice in a language that millions can understand. But the very concept on which the human rights movement is based came to prominence only a few decades ago, fundamentally changing the way we think about ways and means of improving the fate of humanity. Samuel Moyne's book is an attempt to examine the human rights revolution and to understand its causes and consequences. The author shows how the concept of human rights after 1968 became both the refuge of the latest political utopia and the mechanism for its realization, replacing dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism. Should this idea be treated as a legacy to be cherished, or are human rights an invention to be studied and relentlessly renewed? Samuel Moyne is Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University (USA), a specialist in European intellectual history.
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