Die Sakralität der Person. Eine neue Genealogie der Menschenrechte
Germany
German
Fiction
2011
A persistent controversy of recent decades revolves around the question of the origin of the idea of human rights. Do we owe it to our Christian-Jewish heritage or is it an invention of the Enlightenment? Neither, claims social theorist Hans Joas, and in his book he lays out a very different story of human rights.