Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Slotte, Pamela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Did the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does such a distinguishable entity as 'the history of human rights' even exist, or are efforts to read evidence in past events of the later 'evolution' of human rights mere ideology? This book explores these questions through a collective effort by scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous. It taps into recent 'revisionist' debates and asks: what do we really know of the history of human rights?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316365939
• Artikelnr.: 52963197

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. History of human rights as political intervention in the present
Martti Koskenniemi; 1. Revisiting the origins of human rights: introduction
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari and Pamela Slotte; Part I. Foundations: Antiquity to
the Enlightenment: 2. Human rights in antiquity? Revisiting anachronism and
Roman law Jacob Giltaij and Kaius Tuori; 3. Medieval natural rights
discourse Virpi Mäkinen; 4. Human rights and the Thomist tradition Annabel
Brett; Part II. Pluralities of Discourses and Rights: The Enlightenment and
Single-Issue Causes in the Nineteenth Century: 5. Revolutionary rights Lynn
Hunt; 6. Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights
Samuel Moyn; 7. Constituting the Imperial community: rights, common good,
and authority in Britain's Atlantic empire, 1607-1815 Lauren Benton and
Aaron Slater; 8. Human rights discourse in women's rights conventions in
the United States, 1848-70 Kathryn Kish Sklar; 9. The peace movement and
human rights Martin Ceadel; 10. Socialism and the language of rights: the
origins and implications of economic rights Gregory Claeys; Part III.
Institutional Practices and Relations of Rights: Toward the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights: 11. André Mandelstam and the
internationalization of human rights (1869-1949) Dzovinar Kévonian;
12. From League of Nations mandates to decolonization: a brief history of
rights Taina Tuori; 13. 'Blessed are the peacemakers': Christian
internationalism, ecumenical voices and the quest for human rights Pamela
Slotte; 14. Lobbying for relevance: American internationalists, French
civil libertarians and the UDHR Miia Halme-Tuomisaari; 15. The Cold War and
the rise of an American conception of human rights, 1945-8 Olivier
Barsalou; 16. Afterword Conor Gearty.