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Did the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from'the textbook narrative'- the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does such a distinguishable entity as'the history of human rights'even exist, or are efforts to read evidence in past events of the later'evolution'of human rights mere ideology? This book explores these questions through a collective effort by scholars of history, law, theology and anthropology. Rather than entities with an absolute, predefined'essence', this book conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous. It taps into recent'revisionist'debates and asks: what do we really know of the history of human rights? |
