Preface -- 1. On the genealogy of morals -- 2. The suprising origins of human dignity -- 3. Spectacular wrongs: on humanitarian intervention -- 4. Of deserts and promised lands: on international courts -- 5. Human rights in history -- 6. The intersection with Holocaust memory -- 7. Torture and taboo -- 8. Soft sells: on liberal internationalism -- Epilogue: The future of human rights.
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"What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of reflective and critical studies, Samuel Moyn engages with some of the leading interpreters of human rights, thinkers who have been creating a field from scratch without due reflection on the local and temporal contexts of the stories they are telling"--Publisher.
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