ISBN:
0393331997
,
9780393331998
,
0393060950
,
9780393060959
Language:
English
Pages:
272 S.
,
Ill
,
22 cm
Edition:
1. ed.
Additional Information:
Rezension Asal, Sonja Mitgefühl und Menschenrechte 2008
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Gallagher, Ann Book Review: Hunt L. 2007: Inventing human rights — a history. London: WW Norton, 272 pp. GBP15.99 (HB). ISBN: 978 0 393 06095 9 2008
DDC:
323.09
Keywords:
Human rights History
;
Human rights in literature
;
Torture History
;
Menschenrechte
;
Folter
;
Neuzeit
;
Spät
;
Französische Revolution
;
human rights
;
torture
;
modern era
;
late
;
French Revolution
;
Menschenrecht
;
Folter
;
Menschenrecht 〈Motiv〉
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte
;
Human rights History
;
Human rights in literature
;
Torture History
;
Menschenrecht
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run
Note:
"Torrents of emotion" : reading novels and imagining equality -- "Bone of their bone" : abolishing torture -- "They have set a great example" : declaring rights -- "There will be no end of it" : the consequences of declaring -- "The soft power of humanity" : why human rights failed, only to succeed in the long run. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-260) and index. - Formerly CIP
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