The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights

by Hans Joas (Author), Hans Joas (Contributor)

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  Paperback
  2013

  $35.47

  What are the origins of the idea of human rights and universal human dignity? How can we most fully understand - and realize - these rights going into the future? This title sets out a path, proposing an affirmative genealogy in which human rights are the result of a process of sacralization of every human being.