Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights
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Lynn Hunt examines the emergence of human rights by tracing social changes such as reading novels or accounts of torture and the consequent impact on the psyche of the people. The ability to feel sympathy for others beyond their class, race or gender position is seen as significant in the evolution of concepts of personhood, which is turn, would lead to a respect for the rights of others.