The Architecture of Concepts : The Historical Formation of Human Rights /

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The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.The fi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bolla, Peter de (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Civil rights > History.
Human rights > History.
Liberty.
Human Rights.
Literary Studies.
Political Science.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Adams.
Jefferson.
Thomas Paine.
concepts.
digital humanities.
founding of America.
human rights.
rights.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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

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