Inventing Human Rights

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Inventing Human Rights is written by Lynn Hunt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0393069729 (ISBN 10) and 9780393069723 (ISBN 13).

“A tour de force.”—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture as a means for finding the truth. She demonstrates how ideas of human relationships portrayed in novels and art helped spread these new ideals and how human rights continue to be contested today.