Human rights and the uses of history

Preface

1. On the genealogy of morals

2. The suprising origins of human dignity

3. Spectacular wrongs: on humanitarian intervention

4. Of deserts and promised lands: on international courts

5. Human rights in history

6. The intersection with Holocaust memory

7. Torture and taboo

8. Soft sells: on liberal internationalism

Epilogue: The future of human rights.