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Inventing Human Rights
"Remarkable. . .. Shecoversso much ground in so few pages and with such
clarity, Inventing Human Rights is a tour de force."
—Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review
"To connect human rights to social history in this way is an original and
interesting approach to the subject. . .. [Hunt] offersa lively and informative
history."
—Joshua Muravchick, Wall Street Journal
"Lynn Hunt has shown, in this book and throughout her career, there is much to
be learned by drawing connections between the political events that shaped
modern politics and the literary developments that shaped modern
sensibilities."
—London Review of Books
"Lynn Hunt's elegant Inventing Human Rights offers lucid and original
answers.. . .Hunt skillfully situates their discourse of rights within a series of
broader cultural changes that transformed how (Western) human beings related
to one another. . .. Hunt's mastery of the 18th-century European landscape
allows the book to double as a fresh interpretation of Enlightenment culture."
—Maya Jasanoff, Washington Post
"As Americans begin to hold their leaders accountable for the mistakes made in
the war against terror, this book ought to serve as a guide for thinking about one
of the most serious mistakes of all, the belief that America can win that war by
revoking the Declaration that brought the nation into being."
—Alan Wolfe, Commonweal
"The enterprise of writing the history of human rights has become a widespread
activity only in the past decade. Lynn Hunt's Inventing Human Rights is its
most prominent result.. . .Highly readable."
—Samuel Moyn, The Nation
"Hunt. . .has written a book that is now the inevitable starting point in thinking
about the history of human rights. Essential."
—S. N. Katz, Choice
"Lynn Hunt has achieved nearly everything she set out to do with Inventing
Human Rights. . .. Clearly, Hunt has a passion for the subject, as it comes
through in her writing and the angle from which she attacks the issue. . .colorful,
in-depth narrative."
—Cristoph Mark, The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)
"[Inventing Human Rights] offers a cogent summary of a subject that is
important to every thinking man and woman. Recommended."
—Bob Williams, The Compulsive Reader
"Hunt's history places an insightful emphasis on the idea of human rights as a
project to be continuously extended, a project whose promise is not yet fulfilled."
—Alexander Bevilacqua, Harvard Book Review
"Cultural history of a high order; recommended for academic and large public
collections."
—David Keymer, Library Journal
Copyright © 2007 by Lynn Hunt
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hunt, Lynn Avery.
Inventing human rights / Lynn Hunt.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Human rights—History. 2. Human rights in literature.
3. Torture—History. I. Title.
JC585.H89 2007
323.09—dc22 2006027599
ISBN: 978-0-393-06972-3
