Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

The last utopia : human rights in history / Samuel Moyn.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: JC571 .M88 2010

Search this record's additional resources, such as finding aids, documents, or transcripts.

No results match this search term.
Check spelling and try again.

results are loading

0 results found for “keyward

    Book cover

    Overview

    Summary
    Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today's idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.--From publisher description.
    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Moyn, Samuel.
    Published
    Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
    Contents
    Humanity before human rights
    Death from birth
    Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement
    The purity of this struggle
    International law and human rights
    The burden of morality
    "Human rights" in Anglo-American news
    Human rights in the 1940s
    Human rights between 1968-1978.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Humanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- The burden of morality -- "Human rights" in Anglo-American news -- Human rights in the 1940s -- Human rights between 1968-1978.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780674048720
    0674048725
    Physical Description
    337 pages ; 22 cm

    Keywords & Subjects

    Record last modified:
    2024-06-21 18:46:00
    This page:
    https:​/​/collections.ushmm.org​/search​/catalog​/bib214587

    Additional Resources

    Librarian View

    Download & Licensing

    • Terms of Use
    • This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.

    In-Person Research

    Availability

    Contact Us