Inventing human rights : a history /
human rights : a history
Lynn Hunt.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2007.
- 272 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
"First published as a Norton paperback 2008" -- verso page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: We hold these truths to be self-evident -- 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 -- Soft power of humanity: why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run -- Appendix: Three declarations: 1776, 1789, 1948 -- Notes -- Permissions -- Index.
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Human rights in literature. Human rights--History. Torture--History.