Informationen zum Autor Lynn Hunt is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA! former president of the American Historical Association! and author of numerous works! including Inventing Human Rights and Telling the Truth about History. She lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung "A tour de force."-Gordon S. Wood! New York Times Book Review

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Lynn Hunt is distinguished research professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of numerous works, including Inventing Human Rights and Writing History in the Global Era, and a former president of the American Historical Association, she lives in Los Angeles.

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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.

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A tour de force.Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review