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Inventing Human Rights
Lynn Avery Hunt · 2007 · 272 pages
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In this extraordinary work of cultural and intellectual history, Hunt grounds the creation of human rights in the changes that authors brought to literature, the rejection of torture as a means of finding out truth and the spread of empathy.
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Intermediate14books154 hrs5 stages
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