“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 ...(展开全部)

林·亨特 (Lynn Hunt)，美国史丹佛大学博士。曾追随查尔斯·提利 (Charles Tilly) 从事历史社会学研究。她所到之处皆成为新文化史的重镇，每隔七、八年便有一重量级作品问世，诸如八十年代初期的《法国大革命时期的政治、文化与阶级》(Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, 1986)、以及九○年代初期的《法国大革命时期的家庭罗曼史》等。此外，她每隔十年便组织一次会议反省十年来的新文化史研究成果，因而催生了一九八九年《新文化史》(The New Cultural History, 1989) 和一九九九年《超越文化转向》(Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Cultur...(展开全部)

塞缪尔·莫恩，哈佛大学法学与历史学教授，曾任哥伦比亚大学历史系詹姆斯·布赖斯讲座教授，于2000年和2001年分别获得加州大学伯克利分校历史学博士和哈佛大学法律博士。主要研究欧洲现代思想史，偏重政治与法律思想、史学理论和犹太研究，近年来关注人权的历史研究。2008年获古根海姆奖金。参与编辑《人文》、《现代思想史》等学术杂志。著有《他者的起源》、《辩论大屠杀》、《最后的乌托邦》等。

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. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

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. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about t...(展开全部)

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. An appeal to human rights in the face of injustice can be a heartfelt and morally justified demand for some, while for others it remains merely an empty slogan. Taking an international perspective and focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, health and d...(展开全部)

Since the seventeenth in the Western world century, concern for the welfare of the individual has been articulated philosophically most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only fo...(展开全部)

Since the seventeenth century, concern in the Western world for the welfare of the individual has been articulated most often as a concern for his rights. The modern conception of individual rights resulted from abandonment of ancient, value-laced ideas of nature and their replacement by the modern, mathematically transparent idea of nature that has room only for individuals, o...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)