The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
by Samuel Moyn
A provocative history arguing that human rights became the dominant moral language only in the 1970s, reshaping political thought and activism.
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The Last Utopia traces the emergence of human rights as a central political and moral framework in the late twentieth century.
Samuel Moyn examines how earlier ideals of justice and emancipation gave way to a narrower focus on individual rights.
The book challenges the notion that human rights have deep historical roots, arguing instead for their recent and contingent origins.
Moyn situates this development within broader shifts in global politics and intellectual life after World War II.
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