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By Pamela Slotte,Miia Halme-Tuomisaari

ISBN-10: 1107107644

ISBN-13: 9781107107649

Did the background of human rights start many years, centuries or perhaps millennia in the past? What constitutes this background? And what do we rather examine from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking story of development and inevitable triumph authored essentially by means of Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does one of these distinguishable entity as 'the background of human rights' even exist, or are efforts to learn proof in previous occasions of the later 'evolution' of human rights mere ideology? This booklet explores those questions via a collective attempt by way of students of heritage, legislation, theology and anthropology. instead of entities with an absolute, predefined 'essence', this publication conceptualizes human rights as open-ended and ambiguous. It faucets into contemporary 'revisionist' debates and asks: what can we rather recognize of the historical past of human rights?

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