The Architecture of Concepts : The Historical Formation of Human Rights / Peter de Bolla.
Bolla, Peter de, author.
2013
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Title
The Architecture of Concepts : The Historical Formation of Human Rights / Peter de Bolla.
Author
Bolla, Peter de, author.
ISBN
9780823254415
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254415
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (308 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823254415 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
323
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 architectures over time.Having established the architecture of the concept of human rights, the book then examines two key moments in its historical formation: the First Continental Congress in 1775 and the publication of Tom Paine's Rights of Man in 1792. Arguing that we have yet to fully understand or appreciate the consequences of the eighteenth-century invention of the concept "rights of man," the final chapter addresses our problematic contemporary attempts to leverage human rights as the most efficacious way of achieving universal equality.
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Frontmatter
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

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