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Revisiting the origins of human rights /
"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 'revis...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London:
Cambridge University press,
2015.
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| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 397p. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107107649 (hardback) |