The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
by Samuel Moyn
Samuel Moyn offers a provocative history of human rights, showing how they became the dominant moral language of our era after the 1970s.
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The Last Utopia examines the emergence of human rights as a central framework in global politics and ethics.
Samuel Moyn traces how human rights displaced earlier utopian visions and became the prevailing moral standard after the 1970s.
The book explores the historical conditions that allowed human rights to gain prominence in international discourse.
Moyn challenges common assumptions about the origins and development of human rights in the twentieth century.
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