| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. On Concepts as Cultural Entities; 2. ". . . the Fundamental Rights and Liberties of Mankind . . .": The Architecture of the Rights of Mankind; 3. "There Are, Thank God, Natural, Inherent and Inseparable Rights as Men . . .": The Architecture of American Rights; 4. "The Rights of Man Were but Imperfectly Understood at the Revolution": The Architecture of Rights of Man; 5. The Futures of Human Rights; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century. The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. The second develops an original methodology for recovering the historical formation of the concept of human rights based on data extracted from digital archives. This enables us to track the construction of conceptual arch |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 20, 2015) |
| Subject |
Human rights -- History
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Civil rights -- History
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Liberty.
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freedom.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Civil rights
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Human rights
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Liberty
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823254415 |
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0823254410 |
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9780823254422 |
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0823254429 |
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