The Last Utopia: Human Rights in HistoryHuman 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. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. |
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Contents
Prologue | 1 |
1 Humanity before Human Rights | 11 |
2 Death from Birth | 44 |
3 Why Anticolonialism Wasnt a Human Rights Movement | 84 |
4 The Purity of This Struggle | 120 |
5 International Law and Human Rights | 176 |
The Burden of Morality | 212 |