EAN: 9780674241398

NOT ENOUGH - HUMAN RIGHTS IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD -...

¿No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.¿¿Adam
Kirsch  Wall Street Journal ¿Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human
rights and economic fairness.¿¿George Soros The age of human rights has been kindest to the
rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in
recent decades  a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place 
economic liberalization has emerged as the dominant force. In this provocative book  Samuel
Moyn considers how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while
simultaneously neglecting the demands of broader social and economic justice. Moyn places the
human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift and explores why the rise of human
rights has occurred alongside exploding inequality. ¿Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists
and advocates  in the quest to make the world better for all  have actually helped to make
things worse¿ Sure to provoke a wider discussion.¿ ¿Adam Kirsch  Wall Street Journal ¿A
sharpening interrogation of the liberal order and the institutions of global governance created
by  and arguably for  Pax Americanä Consistently bracing.¿ ¿Pankaj Mishra  London Review of
Books ¿Moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice¿above all our belief in
the emancipatory potential of human rights¿need to be discarded if we are work to make our
vastly unequal world more equal¿ [A] tour de force.¿ ¿Los Angeles Review of Books

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