The last utopia. Human rights in history. Norris S.

Nowadays, human rights allow us to speak of international justice in a language that is understandable to millions. However, the concept itself, on which the human rights movement is based, became known only a few decades ago, fundamentally changing our ideas about the methods and methods of improving the fate of mankind.

The book of Samuel Moin is an attempt to study the revolution in the field of human rights and understand its causes and consequences. The author shows how the concept of human rights after 1968 became at the same time the refuge of the last political utopia and the mechanism of its implementation, having replaced the dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism. Should this idea be treated as a legacy that must be protected, or human rights are an invention that needs to be studied and relentlessly updated?

Samuel Moin - professor of jurisprudence of the Yale School of Law and Professor of the History of Yale University (USA), specialist in European intellectual history.