"There is a struggle for the soul of the human rights movement, and it is being waged in large part through the proxy of genealogy . Samuel Moyn . is the most influential of the revisionists." --Philip Alston, Harvard Law Review Praise for The Last Utopia : "With unparalleled clarity and originality, Moyn's hard-hitting, radically revisionist, and persuasive history of human rights provides a bracing historical reconstruction with which scholars, activists, lawyers and anyone interested in the fate of the human rights movement today will have to grapple." --Mark Mazower, author of No Enchanted Palace: The End of Imperialism and the Ideological Origins of the United Nations "A most welcome book, The Last Utopia is a clear-eyed account of the origins of 'human rights': the best we have." --Tony Judt, author of Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 "A triumph of originality, scholarship, concision . A genuinely thrilling account of the modern history of human rights." --S.

N. Katz, Choice "A major contribution to the history of twentieth-century human rights . From now on taking rights seriously means reading Moyn seriously." --Bryan S. Turner, Contemporary Sociology From the Hardcover edition.