Inventing Human Rights

Inventing Human Rights
Author: Lynn Hunt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2008-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393331997

In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Professor Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth, and the spread of empathy over the centuries.