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Does the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by activist international law scholars? Does such a distinguishable entity as 'the history of human rights' even exist, or are efforts to read evidence in past events of the later 'evolution' of human rights ideology and phenomenon futile? This book explores these questions through a collective effort by history, law, theology and anthropology scholars. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous entities. It taps into recent 'revisionist' debates and asks: what do we really know of the history of human rights?

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights
• Author: Pamela Slotte, Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 420
• EAN: 9781107107649
• ISBN: 1107107644
• ID: 09229268
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 756 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. September 2015

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