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

"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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: De Bolla, Peter, 1957-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
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  • 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.