Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt

Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt asks how the idea of human rights came into being, and why it took the form it did.

The book traces the emergence of rights language in the eighteenth century, considering the cultural and intellectual changes that made it possible for people to imagine rights belonging to everyone. It argues that human rights were not simply discovered but invented — created through new ways of thinking about empathy, equality and the individual.

What readers will explore:

• The origins of the idea of human rights
• Empathy, equality and the eighteenth-century imagination
• How rights language spread and took hold
• Why the invention of rights still shapes debate today

Who this book is for: Readers interested in the history of ideas, human rights, and the Enlightenment.

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