Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (the Oxford Amnesty Lectures) - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Kate E. Tunstall (Editor)Series:Oxford Amnesty LecturesPublish date:2012-09-06Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781441185242ISBN-10:1441185240UPC:9781441185242Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC9QMP70NZ
Self-Evident Truths?: Human Rights and the Enlightenment (the Oxford Amnesty Lectures)
The keywords of the Enlightenment--freedom, tolerance, rights, equality--are today heard everywhere, and they are used to endorse a wide range of positions, some of which are in perfect contradiction. While Orwell's 1984 claims that there is one phrase in the English language that resists translation into Newspeak, namely the opening lines of that key Enlightenment text, the Declaration of...
Series: Oxford Amnesty Lectures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781441185242ISBN-10:1441185240UPC:9781441185242Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & SurveysSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SC9QMP70NZ
Tunstall, Kate E.: - Kate E. Tunstall is University Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College. She is Programme Director of Oxford's Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment, a Director of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, and she co-authored and co-presented (with Caroline Warman) a series of BBC radio programmes on Diderot.
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