Samuel Moyn: Christian Human Rights
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2018
Publication Information
80 Rev. of Politics 152 (2018).
Abstract
In his influential book, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Belknap, 2010), Samuel Moyn reoriented our understanding and the accepted narrative of human rights, focusing especially on the explosion of the idea of human rights into a full-fledged international political project in the 1970s. Christian Human Rights adds a significant new chapter to that story. Here, Moyn extends his gaze back to the mid-twentieth century, reconstructing the ways in which Christian leaders and elites were instrumental in generating the language, concepts, and political commitments that gave rise to the first emergence of human rights on the international plane.
Recommended Citation
Paolo G. Carozza,
Samuel Moyn: Christian Human Rights,
80 Rev. of Politics 152 (2018)..
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