Samuel Moyn

Christian Human Rights

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war.

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Produktdetails

• Intellectual History of the Modern Age
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 148mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 492g
• ISBN-13: 9780812248180
• ISBN-10: 081224818X
• Artikelnr.: 43016404

Autorenporträt

Samuel Moyn is Professor of Law and History at Harvard University and author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. He is coeditor, with Jan Eckel, of The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s, also available from University of Pennsylvania Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Secret History of Human Dignity
Chapter 2. The Human Person and the Reformulation of Conservatism
Chapter 3. The First Historian of Human Rights
Chapter 4. From Communist to Muslim: Religious Freedom and Christian
Legacies
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments