On the spirit of rights / Dan Edelstein.
This text argues that the history of human rights can be meaningfully extended from the present all the way back to the late medieval period. It further claims that the key question up until the Age of Revolutions was not whether or not all individuals possessed rights, but rather what happens to ou...
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Full Text (via University Press Scholarship Online) |
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| Other title: | Chicago scholarship online. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
The University of Chicago Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Life of ideas.
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| Summary: | This text argues that the history of human rights can be meaningfully extended from the present all the way back to the late medieval period. It further claims that the key question up until the Age of Revolutions was not whether or not all individuals possessed rights, but rather what happens to our rights when we enter into a political society. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226589039 (ebook) |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 9, 2019) |