Ebook: Inventing human rights : a history
Author: Hunt Lynn
- Tags: Human rights -- History. Human rights in literature. Torture -- History. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) -- Histoire. Droits de l'homme (Droit international) dans la littérature. Torture -- Histoire. Human rights. Torture. Droits de l'homme -- Histoire. Droits de l'homme dans la littérature. Droit
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
- Language: English
- epub
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.
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