Seeing the myth in human rights /

This book explores the role of myth in the creation and propagation of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Drawing on records, publications and speeches from the Declaration's creators as well as current scholarship on human rights, Jenna Reinbold sees the Declaration as an exemplar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Reinbold, Jenna (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]
Series:	Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Subjects:	United Nations. > General Assembly. > Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Human rights. Human rights > Mythology. Human rights > Religious aspects. Myth. Myth > Political aspects. Political science > Mythology.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Sacred myth, political myth
The sacred center of human rights
The sacred and the social
The legal personality and a new world order
Conclusion: Making and unmaking political myth
Appendix. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.