The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of Human Rights

by Peter De Bolla

Book Overview

The Architecture of Concepts proposes a radically new way of understanding the history of ideas. Taking as its example human rights, it develops a distinctive kind of conceptual analysis that enables us to see with precision how the concept of human rights was formed in the eighteenth century.

The first chapter outlines an innovative account of concepts as cultural entities. The second develops an original methodology for recovering the historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823254399
• ISBN13: 9780823254392
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"