LEADER 02276cam a2200325 a 4500001 214587 005 20240621184610.0 008 110107s2010 mau b 001 0 eng 010 2010012998 020 9780674048720 |qalkaline paper 020 0674048725 |qalkaline paper 035 (OCoLC)ocn555658436 035 214587 049 LHMA 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dUKM |dC#P |dCDX |dBWX |dBUR |dLHM 050 00 JC571 |b.M88 2010 100 1 Moyn, Samuel. 245 14 The last utopia : |bhuman rights in history / |cSamuel Moyn. 264 1 Cambridge, Mass. : |bBelknap Press of Harvard University Press, |c2010. 300 337 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 520 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. 505 0 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. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 591 Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024 650 0 Human rights |xHistory. 650 7 Human rights. |2homoit 852 0 |bstacks |hJC571 |i.M88 2010