General Information

Author/Creator

Moyn, Samuel, author.

Language

English.

Published

Philadelphia, PA : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015.

Physical Description

ix, 248 pages ; 23 cm.

Series

Intellectual history of the modern age.

Contents/Summary

Summary

"In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war....By focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, Moyn demonstrates how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and put to use by postwar democracies governed by Christian parties, which reinvented them to impose moral constraints on individuals, support conservative family structures, and preserve existing social hierarchies. The book ends with a provocative chapter that traces contemporary European struggles to assimilate Muslim immigrants to the continent's legacy of Christian human rights"--Jacket.

Subjects

Subject

Human rights.

Christianity and politics.

Europe > Politics and government > 1945-

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Samuel Moyn.

Series

Intellectual history of the modern age

Content

Introduction -- The secret history of human dignity -- The human person and the reformulation of conservatism -- The first historian of human rights -- From communist to Muslim : religious freedom and Christian legacies -- Epilogue.

ISBN

081224818

9780812248180

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	323 MOY		Reference	-

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