Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

Human Rights

Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

By Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann
Cambridge University Press March 2011

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ISBN-13
9780521142571
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
March 2011
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Has there always been an inalienable 'right to have rights' as part of the human condition, as Hannah Arendt famously argued?

The contributions to this volume examine how human rights came to define the bounds of universal morality in the course of the political crises and conflicts of the twentieth century. Although human rights are often viewed as a self-evident outcome of this history, the essays collected here make clear that human rights are a relatively recent invention that emerged in contingent and contradictory ways.

Focusing on specific instances of their assertion or violation during the past century, this volume analyzes the place of human rights in various arenas of global politics, providing an alternative framework for understanding the political and legal dilemmas that these conflicts presented.

In doing so, this volume captures the state of the art in a field that historians have only recently begun to explore.

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