The architecture of concepts [electronic resource] : the historical formation of human rights / Peter de Bolla.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780823254422
- 323 23
- JC571 .D3328 2013
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. On Concepts as Cultural Entities -- 2. ". the fundamental rights and liberties of mankind.": The Architecture of the Rights of Mankind -- 3. ". there are, thank God, natural, inherent and inseparable rights as men.": The Architecture of American Rights -- 4. ". the rights of man were but imperfectly understood at the revolution": The Architecture of Rights of Man -- 5. The Futures of Human Rights -- Index.
"The Architecture of Concepts presents a new history of ideas. Using digital archives to track the historical formation of the concept of human rights across the Anglophone eighteenth century, it argues that a better understanding of the architecture of the concept will enable us to deliver on its universal aspirations"-- Provided by publisher.
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