Coming Review: Inventing Human Rights, by Lynn Hunt
I will be reviewing Lynn Hunt’s book Inventing Human Rights: A History. The book is noteworthy not because it attempts to trace the origins of the term human rights – this has been done before – but because it strives to trace the influence of novels and the arts upon the evolution of human rights.
I have been searching for a foundational text that avoids the legalistic interpretations of the ‘Law and Literature’ movement. We’ll find out soon if Professor Hunt’s book is it.
–D.O.
