LEADER 02789oam 2200553I 450 001 9910808802603321 005 20220902191733.0 010 $a9780674058545 010 $a0674058542 035 $a(CKB)2560000000052916 035 $a(EBL)3300882 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000421787 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421787 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10415624 035 $a(PQKB)10721313 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300882 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10428845 035 $a(OCoLC)680038263 035 $a(PPN)224168606 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000052916 100 $a20100331d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe last utopia $ehuman rights in history /$fSamuel Moyn 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts ;$aLondon :$cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) 311 0 $a0674064348 311 0 $a0674048725 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHumanity before human rights -- Death from birth -- Why anticolonialism wasn't a human rights movement -- The purity of this struggle -- International law and human rights -- The burden of morality -- "Human rights" in Anglo-American news -- Human rights in the 1940's -- Human rights between 1968-1978. 330 $aHuman 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. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. 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.--From publisher description. 606 $aHuman rights$xHistory 606 $aHuman rights 615 0$aHuman rights$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman rights. 676 $a323.09 700 $aMoyn$b Samuel$0478622 801 0$bMiAaPQb eng 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808802603321 996 $aThe last utopia$93957408 997 $aUNINA