The Architecture of Concepts : : The Historical Formation of Human Rights / / Peter de Bolla.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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