Inventing Human Rights Paperback by Lynn Hunt

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2008-03-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393331998
• Item Weight: 215.46 grams
• Dimensions: 8.24 x 5.48 x 0.64 cm

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review

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.

About the Author

Lynn Hunt is distinguished research professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era, and a former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.