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Samuel Moyn, Liberalism against itself.
No full textSamuel Moyn, Liberalism against itself. Cold War intellectuals and the making of our time
Samuel Moyn
No full textPhotograph of Samuel Moyn (Harvard University) with the Sigmund Freud statue on Clark University\u27s campus green. He was there as part of the Henry J. Leir Chair\u27s programming for the 2015-2016 season with a talk called “Human Rights and the Holocaust, A Belated Entanglement”.
Robert Tobin was the inaugural Henry J. Leir Chair in Language, Literature, and Culture from 2008 until his passing in 2022.https://commons.clarku.edu/funwithfreud/1031/thumbnail.jp
Samuel Moyn: Christian Human Rights
No full textIn his influential book, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (Belknap, 2010), Samuel Moyn reoriented our understanding and the accepted narrative of human rights, focusing especially on the explosion of the idea of human rights into a full-fledged international political project in the 1970s. Christian Human Rights adds a significant new chapter to that story. Here, Moyn extends his gaze back to the mid-twentieth century, reconstructing the ways in which Christian leaders and elites were instrumental in generating the language, concepts, and political commitments that gave rise to the first emergence of human rights on the international plane
Ripensando i diritti dell’uomo come diritti umani : The Last Utopia, di Samuel Moyn
No full textThe essay explains the content of the recent work “The Last Utopia” by Samuel Moyn and the author analizes the paradigm of “human rights” and his history in the united stations; in the second part, the Essay highlights some critical element in this thesis and proposes the hypothesis of adaptation of this paradigm
Samuel Moyn—<i>Christian Human Rights</i>
No full textSamuel Moyn in his ‘Christian Human Rights’ argues that the Catholic Church’s endorsement of human rights in 20th century was a tactical appropriation of an ideology alien to Catholicism – and it was designed to stop Communism. In a 2016 symposium with him, I took a different view. Belief in human rights, this paper argues, was central to traditional Catholic moral and political theology – in particular, the Church’s use of human rights to oppose religious coercion by states had a clear basis within the Catholic tradition. The new factor was not simply fear of Communism, but a central feature of Vatican II - a novel complacency about the effects on human nature of the Fall
Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers
No full textThe Samuel Dorris Dickinson papers contain the professional and personal records of archaeologist, journalist, and author Samuel Dorris Dickinson
Christian human rights
No full text"In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war....By focusing on the 1930s and 1940s, Moyn demonstrates how the language of human rights was separated from the secular heritage of the French Revolution and put to use by postwar democracies governed by Christian parties, which reinvented them to impose moral constraints on individuals, support conservative family structures, and preserve existing social hierarchies. The book ends with a provocative chapter that traces contemporary European struggles to assimilate Muslim immigrants to the continent's legacy of Christian human rights"--Jacke
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Response to Nathan Bracher's review of Samuel Moyn, "Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics"
No full textThe tenor of the review's praise of what I have written, and the accuracy of its rendition of what I covered, could leave no author dissatisfied. I should turn, therefore, directly to Professor Bracher's reservations. He offers a smaller criticism and a larger one
A propósito de Moyn, Samuel & Sartori, Andrew (eds.), Global Intellectual History, NewYork, Columbia University Press, 2013, pp. 342.
No full textA propósito de Moyn, Samuel & Sartori, Andrew (eds.), Global Intellectual History, NewYork, Columbia University Press, 2013, pp. 342
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