Inventing Human Rights: A History
Format: kindle
ASIN: B001P7GGRI
Pages no: 273
Edition language: English
Concise and accessible, Lynn Hunt's 'Inventing Human Rights' presents a good history of the ideas of human rights as they emerged in the Enlightenment.I liked her first chapter best, where she focuses on Richardson's 'Pamela' and 'Clarissa' and Rousseau's 'Julie' and argues that their ability to pro...