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Inventing human rights, a history, Lynn Hunt

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Inventing human rights, a history, Lynn Hunt
Language
eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Inventing human rights
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Lynn Hunt
Sub title
a history
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
"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
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