{"product_id":"human-rights-and-the-uses-of-history-expanded-second-edition-9781781689004","title":"Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA pithy and readable challenge to the concept of human rights\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaving staked out his owns claims about the postwar origins of human rights discourse in his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eLast Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e, Moyn, in this volume, takes issue with rival conceptions--including, especially, those that underlie justifications of humanitarian intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Moyn\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of law and history at Harvard University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Utopia: Human Rights in History\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eChristian Human Rights\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), among other books, as well as editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHumanity\u003c\/i\u003e. He also writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eForeign Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967132827922,"sku":"9781781689004","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0cd6da85-34be-4320-97af-c79a6e915d10.jpg?v=1768926738","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/human-rights-and-the-uses-of-history-expanded-second-edition-9781781689004","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}