Inventing Human Rights: A History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393331998)

How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.

Author: Lynn Hunt
ISBN-10: 0393331997
ISBN-13: 9780393331998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.32h x 5.56w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 06/15/2008 pg. 24