图书标签: 政治哲学 哲学 人权 政治理论 历史 文化研究 思想史 政治
发表于2024-11-08
The Last Utopia pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Human 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.
For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront.
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.
Samuel Moyn is Professor of History at Columbia University.
By far the best book on the history of human rights
评分我的历史真的太差了 sigh 假期补课......
评分行文繁缛,好难读,说人话嘛!
评分行文繁缛,好难读,说人话嘛!
评分作者通过细致的爬梳各国史料,描绘了各种政治势力如何将hr作为自己的工具进行解读。一方面hr作为冷战时代超越左右对立的尝试,意义被大大保守化(例如,消除了其中self determination的部分,使其最小化道德化);另一方面,hr作为各种乌托邦倒台后的替代品(the last utopia),成为了政治势力的工具。(使其最大化政治化)。
塞缪尔·莫恩的《最后的乌托邦:历史中的人权》在人权兴盛的当下是一部特别的作品。他返回到1977年以前的世界,以思想史家的客观和清醒展现了人权时代以前,“人权”话语在国际政治、社会运动、国际法等领域的处境,并揭示了我们所信仰的人权历史其实是被追溯着构建起来的,而...
评分塞缪尔·莫恩的《最后的乌托邦:历史中的人权》在人权兴盛的当下是一部特别的作品。他返回到1977年以前的世界,以思想史家的客观和清醒展现了人权时代以前,“人权”话语在国际政治、社会运动、国际法等领域的处境,并揭示了我们所信仰的人权历史其实是被追溯着构建起来的,而...
评分塞缪尔·莫恩的《最后的乌托邦:历史中的人权》在人权兴盛的当下是一部特别的作品。他返回到1977年以前的世界,以思想史家的客观和清醒展现了人权时代以前,“人权”话语在国际政治、社会运动、国际法等领域的处境,并揭示了我们所信仰的人权历史其实是被追溯着构建起来的,而...
评分The Last Utopia pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024