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100			_aMoyn, Samuel
245			_aLast Utopia : human rights in history
260			_bHarvard University Press _c2012 _aLondon
300			_a337 p. _c21 cm.
365			_b22.50 _cUSD _d80.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
520			_aHuman 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. Here, historian Samuel Moyn elevates that transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal's troubled present and uncertain future. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
650			_aHuman rights history
650			_aInternational rights law
650			_aHuman rights
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