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This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spa
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The first contemporary overview of the critiques of human rights in Western political thought, from the French Revolution to the present day.
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The Future of Human Rights
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This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes