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The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History
- Samuel Moyn
- Political Science
- 15 September 2010
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… Expand
The Future of Human Rights
- Samuel Moyn
- Political Science
- 14 February 2014
This essay summarizes the author’s argument for the recent genesis of international human rights and asks what implications for the future that argument has. The essay lays emphasis on the… Expand
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Democracy Past and Future
- P. Rosanvallon, Samuel Moyn
- Political Science
- 2006
Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of… Expand
Human Rights and the Uses of History
- Samuel Moyn
- Political Science
- 17 June 2014
What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of historical and ideological strife. In this sequence of… Expand
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It
- Samuel Moyn
- Sociology
- 1 December 2005
Substance, Scale, and Salience: The Recent Historiography of Human Rights
- Samuel Moyn
- Sociology
- 26 October 2012
This review evaluates the current state of the historiography of human rights, which originated as a field a mere decade ago. It proposes that the substantive contents of norms, doctrines, and law… Expand
OF SAVAGERY AND CIVIL SOCIETY: PIERRE CLASTRES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH POLITICAL THOUGHT
- Samuel Moyn
- History
- Modern Intellectual History
- 1 April 2004
This essay examines the thought of the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres (1938–1977). It situates his once-famous depiction of savage politics as a premonitory rejection of the state at the… Expand
Hannah Arendt on the Secular
- Samuel Moyn
- Philosophy
- 21 September 2008
Despite the current debate about the concept of secularization and the poli tics of secularism around the world, Hannah Arendt has not generally been understood as a proponent of either. But her most… Expand
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