Lynn Hunt Inventing Human Rights

  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt, 2007 How were human rights invented, and what is their turbulent history? Human rights is a concept that only came to the forefront during the eighteenth century. When the American Declaration of Independence declared all men are created equal and the French proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man during their revolution, they were bringing a new guarantee into the world. But why then? How did such a revelation come to pass? In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Lynn 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. Hunt traces the amazing rise of rights, their momentous eclipse in the nineteenth century, and their culmination as a principle with the United Nations's proclamation in 1948. She finishes this work for our time with a diagnosis of the state of human rights today.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Inventing Human Rights: A History Lynn Hunt, 2008-04-17 “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.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt, 2008-03-25 In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor 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 over the centuries.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Telling the Truth about History Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, 2011-02-14 A fascinating historiographical essay. . . . An unusually lucid and inclusive explication of what it ultimately at stake in the culture wars over the nature, goals, and efficacy of history as a discipline.—Booklist
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The New Cultural History Lynn Hunt, 1989-03-07 Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a deepening of their notion of cultural products; some of them now read historical documents in the same way that they previously read great texts. Anthropologists have turned to the history of their own discipline in order to better understand the ways in which disciplinary authority was constructed. As historians have begun to participate in this ferment, they have moved away from their earlier focus on social theoretical models of historical development toward concepts taken from cultural anthropology and literary criticism. Much of the most exciting work in history recently has been affiliated with this wide-ranging effort to write history that is essentially a history of culture. The essays presented here provide an introduction to this movement within the discipline of history. The essays in Part One trace the influence of important models for the new cultural history, models ranging from the pathbreaking work of the French cultural critic Michel Foucault and the American anthropologist Clifford Geertz to the imaginative efforts of such contemporary historians as Natalie Davis and E. P. Thompson, as well as the more controversial theories of Hayden White and Dominick LaCapra. The essays in Part Two are exemplary of the most challenging and fruitful new work of historians in this genre, with topics as diverse as parades in 19th-century America, 16th-century Spanish texts, English medical writing, and the visual practices implied in Italian Renaissance frescoes. Beneath this diversity, however, it is possible to see the commonalities of the new cultural history as it takes shape. Students, teachers, and general readers interested in the future of history will find these essays stimulating and provocative.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The French Revolution in Global Perspective Suzanne Desan, Lynn Hunt, William Max Nelson, 2013-03-19 Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out of a long history of global commerce, imperial competition, and the movement of people and ideas in places as far flung as India, Egypt, Guiana, and the Caribbean. This international approach helps to explain how the Revolution fused immense idealism with territorial ambition and combined the drive for human rights with various forms of exclusion. The essays examine topics including the role of smuggling and free trade in the origins of the French Revolution, the entwined nature of feminism and abolitionism, and the influence of the French revolutionary wars on the shape of American empire. The French Revolution in Global Perspective illuminates the dense connections among the cultural, social, and economic aspects of the French Revolution, revealing how new political forms-at once democratic and imperial, anticolonial and centralizing-were generated in and through continual transnational exchanges and dialogues. Contributors: Rafe Blaufarb, Florida State University; Ian Coller, La Trobe University; Denise Davidson, Georgia State University; Suzanne Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles; Andrew Jainchill, Queen's University; Michael Kwass, The Johns Hopkins University; William Max Nelson, University of Toronto; Pierre Serna, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne; Miranda Spieler, University of Arizona; Charles Walton, Yale University
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Human Rights Revolution Akira Iriye, Petra Goedde, William I. Hitchcock, 2012 This volume explores the place of human rights in history, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented, with case studies focusing on the 1940s through the present.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Writing History in the Global Era Lynn Hunt, 2014-09-15 Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today’s global world and how it should be written. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in new ways as they share their ideas. She proposes a sweeping reevaluation of individuals’ active role and their place in society as the keys to understanding the way people and ideas interact. Hunt also reveals how surprising new perspectives on society and the self offer promising new ways of thinking about the meaning and purpose of history in our time.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The French Revolution and Human Rights Lynn Hunt, 2019-08-13 Exploring the issue of rights and citizenship, Revolutionary France, French Revolution and Human Rights uses original translations and commentary of both debates and legislation that led to the French development of the modern concept of human rights.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Seeing the Myth in Human Rights Jenna Reinbold, 2016-11-08 The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism for enforcement, it holds almost no legal authority. Indeed, since its adoption, the Declaration's authority has been portrayed not as legal or political but as moral. Rather than providing a set of rules to follow or laws to obey, it represents a set of standards against which the world's societies are measured. It has achieved a level of rhetorical power and influence unlike anything else in modern world politics, becoming the foundational myth of the human rights project. Seeing the Myth in Human Rights presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the role of mythmaking in the creation and propagation of the Universal Declaration. Pushing beyond conventional understandings of myth, which tend to view such narratives as vehicles either for the spreading of particular religious dogmas or for the spreading of erroneous, even duplicitous, discourses, Jenna Reinbold mobilizes a robust body of scholarship within the field of religious studies to help us appreciate myth as a mode of human labor designed to generate meaning, solidarity, and order. This usage does not merely parallel today's scholarship on myth; it dovetails in unexpected ways with a burgeoning body of scholarship on the origin and function of contemporary human rights, and it puts the field of religious studies into conversation with the fields of political philosophy, critical legal studies, and human rights historiography. For Reinbold, myth is a phenomenon that is not merely germane to the exploration of specific religious narratives but is key to a broader understanding of the nature of political authority in the modern world.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice Jack Donnelly, 2003 (unseen), $12.95. Donnelly explicates and defends an account of human rights as universal rights. Considering the competing claims of the universality, particularity, and relativity of human rights, he argues that the historical contingency and particularity of human rights is completely compatible with a conception of human rights as universal moral rights, and thus does not require the acceptance of claims of cultural relativism. The book moves between theoretical argument and historical practice. Rigorous and tightly-reasoned, material and perspectives from many disciplines are incorporated. Paper edition Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Last Utopia Samuel Moyn, 2012-03-05 Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: A World Made New Mary Ann Glendon, 2002-06-11 Unafraid to speak her mind and famously tenacious in her convictions, Eleanor Roosevelt was still mourning the death of FDR when she was asked by President Truman to lead a controversial commission, under the auspices of the newly formed United Nations, to forge the world’s first international bill of rights. A World Made New is the dramatic and inspiring story of the remarkable group of men and women from around the world who participated in this historic achievement and gave us the founding document of the modern human rights movement. Spurred on by the horrors of the Second World War and working against the clock in the brief window of hope between the armistice and the Cold War, they grappled together to articulate a new vision of the rights that every man and woman in every country around the world should share, regardless of their culture or religion. A landmark work of narrative history based in part on diaries and letters to which Mary Ann Glendon, an award-winning professor of law at Harvard University, was given exclusive access, A World Made New is the first book devoted to this crucial turning point in Eleanor Roosevelt’s life, and in world history. Finalist for the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Book That Changed Europe Lynn Hunt, Margaret C. Jacob, Wijnand Mijnhardt, 2010-03-31 Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The International Struggle for New Human Rights Clifford Bob, 2009 Why are certain global problems recognized as human rights issues while others are not? This book highlights campaigns to persuade the human rights movement to move beyond traditional concerns and embrace pressing new ones. Its analytic framework and case studies reveal critical strategies and conflicts involved in the struggle for new rights.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Global Good Samaritans Alison Brysk, 2009-03-17 In a troubled world where millions die at the hands of their own governments and societies, some states risk their citizens' lives, considerable portions of their national budgets, and repercussions from opposing states to protect helpless foreigners. Dozens of Canadian peacekeepers have died in Afghanistan defending humanitarian reconstruction in a shattered faraway land with no ties to their own. Each year, Sweden contributes over $3 billion to aid the world's poorest citizens and struggling democracies, asking nothing in return. And, a generation ago, Costa Rica defied U.S. power to broker a peace accord that ended civil wars in three neighboring countries--and has now joined with principled peers like South Africa to support the United Nations' International Criminal Court, despite U.S. pressure and aid cuts. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are alive today because they have been sheltered by one of these nations. Global Good Samaritans looks at the reasons why and how some states promote human rights internationally, arguing that humanitarian internationalism is more than episodic altruism--it is a pattern of persistent principled politics. Human rights as a principled foreign policy defies the realist prediction of untrammeled pursuit of national interest, and suggests the utility of constructivist approaches that investigate the role of ideas, identities, and influences on state action. Brysk shows how a diverse set of democratic middle powers, inspired by visionary leaders and strong civil societies, came to see the linkage between their long-term interest and the common good. She concludes that state promotion of global human rights may be an option for many more members of the international community and that the international human rights regime can be strengthened at the interstate level, alongside social movement campaigns and the struggle for the democratization of global governance.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Human Rights In Camera Sharon Sliwinski, 2011-10-03 From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt’s furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated. But the history of human rights—and their abuses—is also a richly illustrated one. Following this picture trail, Human Rights In Camera takes an innovative approach by examining the visual images that have accompanied human rights struggles and the passionate responses people have had to them. Sharon Sliwinski considers a series of historical events, including the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and the Holocaust, to illustrate that universal human rights have come to be imagined through aesthetic experience. The circulation of images of distant events, she argues, forms a virtual community between spectators and generates a sense of shared humanity. Joining a growing body of scholarship about the cultural forces at work in the construction of human rights, Human Rights In Camera is a novel take on this potent political ideal.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: A False Tree of Liberty Susan Marks, 2019 This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the eighteenth century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the book reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Human Rights Andrew Clapham, 2015 Focusing on highly topical issues such as torture, arbitrary detention, privacy, and discrimination, this book will help readers to understand for themselves the controversies and complexities behind human rights.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: That the World May Know James Dawes, 2009-06-30 What can we do to prevent more atrocities from happening in the future, and to stop the ones that are happening right now? That the World May Know tells the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Evidence for Hope Kathryn Sikkink, 2019-03-05 A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work Evidence for Hope makes the case that yes, human rights work. Critics may counter that the movement is in serious jeopardy or even a questionable byproduct of Western imperialism. Guantánamo is still open and governments are cracking down on NGOs everywhere. But human rights expert Kathryn Sikkink draws on decades of research and fieldwork to provide a rigorous rebuttal to doubts about human rights laws and institutions. Past and current trends indicate that in the long term, human rights movements have been vastly effective. Exploring the strategies that have led to real humanitarian gains since the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence for Hope looks at how essential advances can be sustained for decades to come.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Philosophy of Human Rights Patrick Hayden, 2001-02-13 Patrick Hayden brings together an extensive collection of classical and contemporary writings on the topic of human rights, providing an exceptionally comprehensive introduction to the subject.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: International Human Rights Law Rhona K. M. Smith, 2022 Illustrating the scope of this fascinating and wide-reaching subject to the student, this clear and concise text gives a broad introduction to international human rights law. Coverage includes regional systems of protection, the role of the UN, and a variety of substantive rights. The author skilfully guides students through the complexities of the subject, and then prepares them for further study and research. Key cases and areas of debate are highlighted throughout, and a wealth of references to cases and further readings are provided at the end of each chapter. Digital formats and resources The tenth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks - The online resources that support the book contain links to the full cases referenced at the end of each chapter as well as a list of annotated web links to aid further study.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Principles of Natural Law Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, 1780
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The French Revolution and Napoleon Lynn Hunt, Jack R. Censer, 2022-04-21 Why France Had a Revolution in 1789 -- The Power of the People, 1789-1792 -- A Republic in Constant Crisis, 1792-1794 -- The Power of the Military, 1794-1799 -- The Bonapartist Republic to Napoleonic Empire, 1800-1807 -- The Napoleonic Eagle Soars and Finally Plummets, 1808-1815 -- Crucible of the Modern World.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: On the Spirit of Rights Dan Edelstein, 2021-06 By the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did “rights” come to justify such measures? In On the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of “rights” we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, On the Spirit of Rights is a sweeping tour through centuries of European intellectual history and an essential guide to our ways of thinking about human rights today.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: International Human Rights Jack Donnelly, 2012-07-22 International Human Rights examines the ways in which states and other international actors have addressed human rights since the end of World War II. This unique textbook features substantial attention to theory, history, international and regional institutions, and the role of transnational actors in the protection and promotion of human rights. Its purpose is to explore the difficult and contentious politics of human rights, and how those political dimensions have been addressed at the national, regional, and especially international levels. The fifth edition is substantially updated, rewritten, and revised throughout, including updates on multilateral institutions (especially the UN's Universal Periodic Review process and the Human Rights Council's Special Procedures mechanisms), regional systems, human rights in foreign policy (including a specific chapter on U.S. foreign policy), humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect, and (anti)terrorism and human rights. The book also includes a new chapter on the unity (indivisibility) of human rights. Chapters include discussion questions, case studies for in-depth examination of topics (including new case studies on the U.N. Special Procedures, Myanmar, and Israeli settlements in West-Bank Palestine), and ten problems (including new entries on the war in Syria and hierarchies between human rights) tailored to promote classroom discussion.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: A World Divided Eric D. Weitz, 2021-06 A global history of human rights in a world of nations that grant rights to some while denying them to others Once dominated by vast empires, the world is now divided into some 200 independent countries that proclaim human rights—a transformation that suggests that nations and human rights inevitably develop together. But the reality is far more problematic, as Eric Weitz shows in this compelling global history of the fate of human rights in a world of nation-states. Through vivid histories from virtually every continent, A World Divided describes how, since the eighteenth century, nationalists have established states that grant human rights to some people while excluding others, setting the stage for many of today’s problems, from the refugee crisis to right-wing nationalism. Only the advance of international human rights will move us beyond a world divided between those who have rights and those who don't.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights Pamela Slotte, Miia Halme, 2015-09-11 Scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology critically revisit the history of human rights.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Affective Justice Kamari Maxine Clarke, 2019-11-15 Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control. In Affective Justice Kamari Maxine Clarke explores the African Union's pushback against the ICC in order to theorize affect's role in shaping forms of justice in the contemporary period. Drawing on fieldwork in The Hague, the African Union in Addis Ababa, sites of postelection violence in Kenya, and Boko Haram's circuits in Northern Nigeria, Clarke formulates the concept of affective justice—an emotional response to competing interpretations of justice—to trace how affect becomes manifest in judicial practices. By detailing the effects of the ICC’s all-African indictments, she outlines how affective responses to these call into question the objectivity of the ICC’s mission to protect those victimized by violence and prosecute perpetrators of those crimes. In analyzing the effects of such cases, Clarke provides a fuller theorization of how people articulate what justice is and the mechanisms through which they do so.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution Lynn Hunt, 2016-10-17 When this book was published in 1984, it reframed the debate on the French Revolution, shifting the discussion from the Revolution's role in wider, extrinsic processes (such as modernization, capitalist development, and the rise of twentieth-century totalitarian regimes) to its central political significance: the discovery of the potential of political action to consciously transform society by molding character, culture, and social relations. In a new preface to this twentieth-anniversary edition, Hunt reconsiders her work in the light of the past twenty years' scholarship.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Beyond Human Rights Anne Peters, 2016-10-27 Beyond Human Rights, previously published in German and now available in English, is a historical and doctrinal study about the legal status of individuals in international law.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Deliverance of Others David Palumbo-Liu, 2012-06-05 The distinguished literary critic David Palumbo-Liu posits reading literature as an ethical act, a way of thinking through our relations to others in the age of globalization.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Idea of Humanity in a Global Era B. Mazlish, 2008-12-22 The result of a lifetime of research and contemplation on global phenomena, this book explores the idea of humanity in the modern age of globalization. Tracking the idea in the historical, philosophical, legal, and political realms, this is a concise and illuminating look at a concept that has defined the twentieth century.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Nationalism and Human Rights G. Cheng, 2012-02-14 By critically addressing the tension between nationalism and human rights that is presumed in much of the existing literature, the essays in this volume confront the question of how we should construe human rights: as a normative challenge to the excesses of modernity, particularly those associated with the modern nation-state, or as an adjunct of globalization, with its attendant goal of constructing a universal civilization based on neoliberal economic principles and individual liberty.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: The Declaration of Independence David Armitage, 2007-01-15 In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first to treat it entirely within a broad international framework. He shows how the Declaration arose within a global moment in the late eighteenth century similar to our own. He uses over one hundred declarations of independence written since 1776 to show the influence and role the U.S. Declaration has played in creating a world of states out of a world of empires. He discusses why the framers’ language of natural rights did not resonate in Britain, how the document was interpreted in the rest of the world, whether the Declaration established a new nation or a collection of states, and where and how the Declaration has had an overt influence on independence movements—from Haiti to Vietnam, and from Venezuela to Rhodesia. Included is the text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and sample declarations from around the world. An eye-opening list of declarations of independence since 1776 is compiled here for the first time. This unique global perspective demonstrates the singular role of the United States document as a founding statement of our modern world.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Measuring Time, Making History Lynn Hunt, 2008-01-01 Time is the crucial ingredient in history, and yet historians rarely talk about time as such. These essays offer new insight into the development of modern conceptions of time, from the Christian dating system (BC/AD or BCE/CE) to the idea of “modernity” as a new epoch in human history. Are the Gregorian calendar, world standard time, and modernity itself simply impositions of Western superiority? How did the idea of stages of history culminating in the modern period arise? Is time really accelerating? Can we—should we—try to move to a new chronological framework, one that reaches back to the origins of humans and forward away or beyond modernity? These questions go to the heart of what history means for us today. Time is now on the agenda.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Human Rights and Revolutions Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Greg Grandin, Lynn Hunt, Marilyn B. Young, 2007-05-15 Now in a revised and updated edition with added original chapters, this acclaimed book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex links between revolutionary struggles and human rights discourses and practices. Covering events as far removed from one another in time and space as the English Civil War, the Parisian upheavals of 1789, Latin American independence struggles, and protests in late twentieth-century China, the contributors explore the paradoxes of revolutionary and human rights projects. The book convincingly shows the ways in which revolutions have both helped spur new advances in thinking about human rights and produced regimes that commit a range of abuses. Providing an unusually balanced analysis of the changes over time in conceptions of human rights in Western and non-Western contexts, this work offers a unique window into the history of the world during modern times and a fresh context for understanding today's pressing issues. Contributions by: Florence Bernault, Mark Philip Bradley, Sumit Ganguly, Greg Grandin, James N. Green, Lynn Hunt, Yanni Kotsonis, Timothy McDaniel, Kristin Ross, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Alexander Woodside, Marilyn B. Young, David Zaret, and Michael Zuckert
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Histories Jacques Revel, Lynn Avery Hunt, 1995 The period from 1945 has been one of the most intellectually fruitful in French history. Entirely new approaches to a number of fields have been developed, and the influence of French thinkers has resonated throughout the West, in many ways reformulating the approach to modern knowledge.
  lynn hunt inventing human rights: Links Nuruddin Farah, 2005-03-29 From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature. Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgia trip—his last residence there was a jail cell. And who could feel nostalgic for a city like this? U.S. troops have come and gone, and the decimated city is ruled by clan warlords and patrolled by qaat-chewing gangs who shoot civilians to relieve their adolescent boredom. Diverted in his pilgrimage to visit his mother’s grave, Jeebleh is asked to investigate the abduction of the young daughter of one of his closest friend’s family. But he learns quickly that any act in this city, particularly an act of justice, is much more complicated than he might have imagined.
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'Crimes against Humanity': Human Rights, the British Empire
4 Mar 2019 · 10 Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York, 2008); Sam Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Cambridge, Mass., 2010). American Historical Review …

Rights, History, Critique Koskenniemi, Martti - Helsinki
Human Rights’, 8 Annual Review of Law and Social Science (2012), 123-140. , 4 See e.g. Jakob Giltaj, Menschenrechten in het romersche recht? (Nijmegen, Wolf 2011). ... 9 See Lynn Hunt, …

The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Man-Made: …
For outlines of this debate, see Hersch Lauterpacht, International law and Human Rights, Pt. I, § 2 (1968 [1950]); Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (2007); Jenny S. Martinez, The …

Human Rights and the Medical Care Narrative - Rupkatha
Human Rights, Narrative and Illness James Dawes has argued for the foundational role played by stories and storytelling in Human Rights work (2009). Building on Lynn Hunt’s much cited work, …

Department of Political Science POLI 4505 / Human Rights
Each student will write a brief book review of Lynn Hunt’s Inventing Human Rights (approx. 5 pages). These reviews should assess the strengths and weakness of Hunt’s analysis, and …

The Enlightenment, A Short History of the French Revolution, Inventing …
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights (Norton) 2. On Electronic Reserve: All the other readings are on Electronic Reserve (ER) and can be downloaded by going to Blackboard, scrolling down to …

Sociology 202: An Introduction to Human Rights - Wellesley …
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, Chapters 1-3 (10/3) Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, Chapters 4-5 Read One Essay in Hunt, The French Revolution and Human Rights (entire book …

The Symbolic Nature of Legal Rights - nordiskmiljoratt.se
3 Hunt, Lynn, Inventing Human Rights – A History, Nor-ton, 2008, p. 20. Nordisk miljörttslig tidskrift 024:pecial Issue Nordic nvironmental Law Journal 78 cal examination in its own right.4 …

Schopenhauer's Mitleid, Environmental Outrage and Human Rights
The modern human rights movement began in outrage, and the modern environmental movement found its human rights footing only when it too began to feel outrage at the increasing number, …

Genealogies of Human Rights - Cambridge University Press
6 Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York, 2007); similarly teleologi-cal are Paul Gordon Lauren, The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Philadelphia, …

Towards International Islamic Human Rights: A comparative study …
1 For greater certainty I am equating the Western human rights standard to the universal human rights norms as established in the by the United Nations (UN) and its subsequent treaties 2 …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

ALL HONS SEM 1 GE: LITERATURE AND HUMAN Rights
Paper GE: Literature and Human Rights Marks Internal Assessment: 30 Continuous Assessment: 40 Final Exams: 90 Total: 160 Contact Hours/Week Lecture: 3 Tutorial: 1. Learning Objectives …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt - mathiasdahlgren.se
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Embracing humanity’s pasts. The need to pluralize Human Rights …
5 In particular, I will focus on the work of Micheline Ishay (The History of Human Rights) and Lynn Hunt (Inventing Human Rights). 6 the belonging to a nation-State; and then, as something ...

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …

Sociology of Human Rights - d101vc9winf8ln.cloudfront.net
4 • Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (W.W. Norton & Company, 2007). • Hans Joas, The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights (Georgetown University …

Inventing Human Rights Lynn Hunt
Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights provides a compelling and nuanced historical account of the development of human rights. By focusing on the cultural and intellectual transformations of the …