Inventing human rights : a history / Lynn Hunt.
In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy.
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2007]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-260) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393069723 0393069729 |