Samuel Moyn is Professor of History at Columbia University.
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.
發表於2024-06-03
The Last Utopia 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
猶記得,第一次接觸人權擬製的觀點,感到驚世駭俗。習慣瞭將人權視作自然權利不可或缺的一部分,甚至放任其淩駕國傢主權之類的言論的發展。不可謂不甚囂塵上。 人權一詞本身的絕對性,導緻瞭一種很詭譎的狀態,即默恩所說的政治話語的烏托邦術語,被綁架,用來攫取私益。反殖民...
評分猶記得,第一次接觸人權擬製的觀點,感到驚世駭俗。習慣瞭將人權視作自然權利不可或缺的一部分,甚至放任其淩駕國傢主權之類的言論的發展。不可謂不甚囂塵上。 人權一詞本身的絕對性,導緻瞭一種很詭譎的狀態,即默恩所說的政治話語的烏托邦術語,被綁架,用來攫取私益。反殖民...
評分塞繆爾·莫恩的《最後的烏托邦:曆史中的人權》在人權興盛的當下是一部特彆的作品。他返迴到1977年以前的世界,以思想史傢的客觀和清醒展現瞭人權時代以前,“人權”話語在國際政治、社會運動、國際法等領域的處境,並揭示瞭我們所信仰的人權曆史其實是被追溯著構建起來的,而...
評分猶記得,第一次接觸人權擬製的觀點,感到驚世駭俗。習慣瞭將人權視作自然權利不可或缺的一部分,甚至放任其淩駕國傢主權之類的言論的發展。不可謂不甚囂塵上。 人權一詞本身的絕對性,導緻瞭一種很詭譎的狀態,即默恩所說的政治話語的烏托邦術語,被綁架,用來攫取私益。反殖民...
評分猶記得,第一次接觸人權擬製的觀點,感到驚世駭俗。習慣瞭將人權視作自然權利不可或缺的一部分,甚至放任其淩駕國傢主權之類的言論的發展。不可謂不甚囂塵上。 人權一詞本身的絕對性,導緻瞭一種很詭譎的狀態,即默恩所說的政治話語的烏托邦術語,被綁架,用來攫取私益。反殖民...
圖書標籤: 政治哲學 哲學 人權 政治理論 曆史 文化研究 思想史 政治
在課堂討論後感覺這本書一文不值。david little在我們學校就是神!被神批判的書不可能是好書。
評分在各種政治烏托邦失敗後,hr纔在70年代作為道德烏托邦獲得關注,但也免不瞭走嚮政治烏托邦的命運。考證很細,獲奬無數,本想認真讀,卻在各種奔波中草草看完。
評分這個領域無可置疑的第一
評分我的曆史真的太差瞭 sigh 假期補課......
評分Moyn真的是被很多同僚噴,但這本很棒啊......【
The Last Utopia 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載