Samuel Moyn
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Samuel Moyn's Degrees
- PhD History University of California, Berkeley
- Doctorate Law Harvard University
Why Is Samuel Moyn Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Samuel Aaron Moyn is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and Professor of History at Yale University, which he joined in July 2017. Previously, he was a professor of history at Columbia University for thirteen years and a professor of history and of law at Harvard University for three years. His research interests are in modern European intellectual history, with special interests in France and Germany, political and legal thought, historical and critical theory, and Jewish studies.
Samuel Moyn's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010) (1132)
- Global intellectual history (2013) (206)
- Democracy Past and Future (2006) (128)
- The Future of Human Rights (2014) (125)
- The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s (2014) (121)
- Human Rights and the Uses of History (2014) (109)
- The Last Utopia (2012) (106)
- A Powerless Companion: Human Rights in the Age of Neoliberalism (2014) (103)
- Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World (2018) (93)
- Christian Human Rights (2015) (69)
- Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History (2014) (55)
- Origins of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (2005) (51)
- French Democracy between Totalitarianism and Solidarity: Pierre Rosanvallon and Revisionist Historiography* (2004) (49)
- EMPATHY IN HISTORY, EMPATHIZING WITH HUMANITY (2006) (47)
- Substance, Scale, and Salience: The Recent Historiography of Human Rights (2012) (47)
- Hannah Arendt on the Secular (2008) (39)
- Judith Shklar versus the International Criminal Court (2013) (39)
- Human Rights in the Twentieth Century: Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights (2010) (29)
- A Holocaust Controversy: The Treblinka Affair in Postwar France (2005) (26)
- The Secret History of Constitutional Dignity (2012) (26)
- Amos Funkenstein on the Theological Origins of Historicism (2003) (26)
- Not Enough (2018) (24)
- The First Historian of Human Rights (2011) (21)
- 1. Approaches to Global Intellectual History (2013) (21)
- Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Readings: Between Tradition and Invention (2004) (21)
- Judaism against Paganism: Emmanuel Levinas's Response to Heidegger and Nazism in the 1930s (2011) (20)
- Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel That Ended It (2005) (20)
- The End of Human Rights History (2016) (19)
- From experience to law: Leo Strauss and the Weimar crisis of the philosophy of religion (2007) (19)
- Savage and Modern Liberty (2005) (18)
- Divine and Human Love: Franz Rosenzweig's History of the Song of Songs (2005) (18)
- Jewish and Christian Philosophy of History (2009) (18)
- Fantasies of Federalism (2015) (18)
- OF SAVAGERY AND CIVIL SOCIETY: PIERRE CLASTRES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF FRENCH POLITICAL THOUGHT (2004) (17)
- Is Revelation in the World? (2006) (17)
- Drones and Imagination: A Response to Paul Kahn (2013) (17)
- On the Intellectual Origins of Francois Furet’s Masterpiece (2008) (16)
- French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day: The politics of individual rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort (2012) (16)
- Human Rights in the Absence of Virtue (2017) (16)
- Imaginary Intellectual History (2014) (15)
- From Communist to Muslim: European Human Rights, the Cold War, and Religious Liberty (2014) (14)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism (2014) (14)
- Judith Shklar on the Philosophy of International Criminal Law (2014) (13)
- Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division (2012) (13)
- 6. Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century (2013) (13)
- Anxiety and Secularization (2012) (13)
- History and Political Theory: A Difficult Reunion (2016) (12)
- Jacques Maritain, Christian New Order, and the Birth of Human Rights (2008) (11)
- German Jewry and the Question of Identity: Historiography and Theory (1996) (11)
- 8. On the Nonglobalization of Ideas (2013) (10)
- Two Regimes of Memory (1998) (10)
- Reflections on ‘The Last Utopia’: A Conversation with Samuel Moyn (2011) (9)
- The Continuing Perplexities of Human Rights (2013) (9)
- 11. Making and Taking Worlds (2013) (9)
- 13. Global Intellectual History Meanings and Methods (2013) (9)
- The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law: Do human rights treaties make enough of a difference? (2012) (8)
- THE ASSUMPTION BY MAN OF HIS ORIGINAL FRACTURING: MARCEL GAUCHET, GLADYS SWAIN, AND THE HISTORY OF THE SELF (2009) (8)
- Human Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism (2017) (7)
- Beyond Liberal Internationalism (2017) (7)
- Metaphorically Speaking: Hans Blumenberg, Giambattista Vico, and the Problem of Origins (2000) (7)
- Chapter 1. The Return of the Prodigal: The 1970s as a Turning Point in Human Rights History (2014) (7)
- 5. Global Intellectual History and the History of Political Economy (2013) (6)
- Antisemitism, philosemitism and the rise of Holocaust memory (2009) (6)
- Before - And Beyond - The Liberalism of Fear (2018) (6)
- Anti-Impunity as Deflection of Argument (2016) (6)
- Thomas Piketty and the Future of Legal Scholarship (2014) (6)
- Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights (2016) (6)
- From Aggression to Atrocity: Rethinking the History of International Criminal Law (2016) (5)
- 4. Joseph Banks’s Intermediaries Rethinking Global Cultural Exchange (2013) (5)
- The Doctor’s Plot (2019) (5)
- Democratizing the Supreme Court (2020) (4)
- Knowledge and Politics in International Law (2016) (4)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion (2018) (4)
- Zionism and the Roads Not Taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn (review) (2010) (4)
- Introduction: Interim Intellectual History (2014) (4)
- 2. Common Humanity and Cultural Difference on the Sedentary– Nomadic Frontier Herodotus, Sima Qian, and Ibn Khaldun (2013) (4)
- From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics (2011) (3)
- 10. Putting Global Intellectual History in Its Place (2013) (3)
- The High Tide of Anticolonial Legalism (2020) (3)
- The Meanings of Rights: Plural cosmopolitanisms and the origins of human rights (2014) (3)
- Legal Theory among the Ruins (2016) (3)
- Christian Human Rights: An Introduction (2017) (3)
- Human Rights in Heaven (2018) (3)
- The Sacredness of the Person or The Last Utopia: A Conversation about the History of Human Rights (2015) (2)
- On a Self-Deconstructing Symposium (2016) (2)
- After the Deluge: New Perspectives on the Intellectual and Cultural History of Postwar France (2004) (2)
- Concepts of the Political in Twentieth-Century European Thought (2017) (2)
- 4. Globalizing Welfare after Empire (2018) (2)
- Why the Court Was Right About the Alien Tort Statute (2013) (2)
- The Court Is Not Your Friend (2020) (2)
- 5. Basic Needs and Human Rights (2018) (2)
- Book Review: Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire, by Jennifer Pitts (2018) (2)
- Human Rights and Majority Politics: On Felix Frankfurter's Democratic Theory (2019) (2)
- 9. “Casting the Badge of Inferiority Beneath Black Peoples’ Feet” Archiving and Reading the African Past, Present, and Future in World History (2013) (2)
- A powerless companion (2017) (2)
- Putting Liberalism in Its Place , Paul W. Kahn (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 336 pp., $29.95 cloth. (2005) (2)
- 3. Cosmopolitanism, Vernacularism, and Premodernity (2013) (2)
- Giuseppe Mazzini in (and beyond) the history of human rights (2015) (2)
- Transcendence, morality, and history: Emmanuel Levinas and the discovery of Søren Kierkegaard in France (2004) (2)
- The Neoliberal Republic (2021) (2)
- 2. ON THE DOMESTICATION OF CRITICAL LEGAL HISTORY (2021) (1)
- The International Law That Is America: Reflections on the Last Chapter of the Gentle Civilizer of Nations (2013) (1)
- The Second Bill of Rights: A Reconsideration (2017) (1)
- Martti Koskenniemi and the Historiography of International Law in the Age of the War on Terror (2017) (1)
- Christianity and human rights (2019) (1)
- Intellectuals and Nazism (2012) (1)
- Civil Liberties and Endless War (2015) (1)
- 13 The Subject of Human Rights: An Interview with Samuel Moyn (2020) (1)
- Coals to Newcastle? On the Anglo-American Reception of Pierre Rosanvallon (2016) (1)
- Chapter 1. Before–and Beyond–the Liberalism of Fear (2020) (1)
- Beyond the Human Rights Measurement Controversy (2018) (1)
- Chapter 11. Religious Freedom between Truth and Tactic / Samuel Moyn (2015) (1)
- The Ghost of John Hart Ely (2021) (1)
- Intellectual History and Democracy: An Interview with Pierre Rosanvallon: Introduction (2007) (1)
- Appealing to Heaven: Jephthah, John Locke, and Just War (2009) (1)
- The Intimacies of Four Continents (2016) (1)
- The International Human Rights Movement: A History , Neier (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2012), 379 pp., $35 cloth. (2012) (1)
- T. H. Marshall, the Moral Economy, and Social Rights (2020) (1)
- The Spirit of Jewish History (2012) (1)
- Human Rights in Africa by Bonny Ibhawoh (review) (2019) (1)
- Too Much Secularism? Religious Freedom in European History and the European Court of Human Rights (2019) (1)
- 10. Anxiety and Secularization Søren Kierkegaard and the Twentieth-Century Invention of Existentialism (2012) (1)
- From Situated Freedom to Plausible Worlds (2021) (1)
- International Law and the Politics of History. By Anne Orford. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 382. Index. (2022) (0)
- The Hollowing Out of the Public Interest (2021) (0)
- How Jews Became Germans: The History of Conversion and Assimilation in Berlin . By Deborah Hertz. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 2007. Pp. xii+276. Cloth $38.00. ISBN 0300110944. Paper $24.00. ISBN 0300151640. (2010) (0)
- Christian Human Rights: A Debate (2017) (0)
- AFTERWORD / Macron, the Nouveau Monde, and the Crowning of the Public-Private Elite (2021) (0)
- Books received (1996) (0)
- The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance (review) (2007) (0)
- Afterword: Between the Times (2022) (0)
- Afterword (2020) (0)
- Steven E. Aschheim. Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 194. $27.95 (2008) (0)
- EDITORS' ANNOUNCEMENT (2011) (0)
- Steven E. Aschheim.Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad.:Beyond the Border: The German‐Jewish Legacy Abroad (2008) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding . By Alon Confino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. Pp. xi + 180. Cloth $85.00. ISBN 978-0521516655. Paper $24.99. ISBN 978-0521736329. (2013) (0)
- Foreword to the 2020 edition (2020) (0)
- America, Christianity, and Beyond (2016) (0)
- International Human Rights–A Messy Business (2014) (0)
- On the “Public-ness” of the State (2021) (0)
- Dystopia: A Natural History. By Gregory Claeys.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xii+556. $130.00. (2018) (0)
- Animals and Slaves: A Legal Analogy between Domination and Reform (2023) (0)
- The Public-Private Foundations of the Neoliberal State (2021) (0)
- Eric Weitz: Mensch and Menschenrechte: The Internal Logic of a Life Well-Lived (2022) (0)
- Towards a History of the Decolonization of International Law. An Introduction to the Special Issue (2021) (0)
- 1. HISTORIOGRAPHY, IDEOLOGY, AND LAW: AN INTRODUCTION (2021) (0)
- The Image before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian. By Helen M. Kinsella. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011. 264p. $39.95. (2012) (0)
- JONATHAN JUDAKEN. Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual. (Texts and Contexts.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 390. $45.00 (2007) (0)
- The Historical Origins and Setting of the Friendly Relations Declaration (2020) (0)
- Steven L.B. Jensen, The Making of International Human Rights: The 1960s, Decolonization, and the Reconstruction of Global Values (2018) (0)
- The Intimacies of Four Continents by Lisa Lowe (review) (2016) (0)
- Legal History as a Source of International Law (2018) (0)
- History and Morality and Why History? A History (2022) (0)
- Author’s Response (2020) (0)
- From Aggression to Atrocity (2020) (0)
- Prooftexts, Volume 23 (2003): Author Index (2004) (0)
- Turning on the Mind: French Philosophers on Television. By Tamara Chaplin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xvi+334. $62.50 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). (2009) (0)
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Challenge of Religion. By Johannes Morsink (2018) (0)
- The Politics of Economy (2002) (0)
- Religious freedom between truth and tactic (2015) (0)
- The Ethics of Coalition-Building (2021) (0)
- The Jewish Political Tradition, vol. 1, Authority, Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum, eds. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 641 pp., $35 cloth. (2001) (0)
- Exclusion and Hierarchy: Orthodoxy, Nonobservance, and the Emergence of Modern Jewish Identity (2007) (0)
- Human Rights and German Intellectual History in Transnational Perspective (2020) (0)
- John Locke on intervention, uncertainty, and insurgency* (2013) (0)
- Basic Needs and the Discovery of Global Poverty (2021) (0)
- Rodogno, Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815–1914 , Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. 376. $39.50 (ISBN 978-0-691-15133-5). (2012) (0)
- Recent Books on Ethics and International Affairs (2005) (0)
- Tradition and Beyond: Christian Human Rights in Debate (2017) (0)
- The Spirit of Social Rights (2022) (0)
- Louis Henkin, Human Rights, and American Jewish Constitutional Patriotism (2019) (0)
- A Black Hole in Democracy? (2021) (0)
- Globalizing the Intellectual History of Democracy (2020) (0)
- Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism. By Onur Ulas Ince. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 232p. $74.00 cloth. (2018) (0)
- Book Review: Human Rights as a Way of Life: On Bergson’s Political Philosophy, by Alexandre Lefebvre (2015) (0)
- Swords Turned into Plowshares (2007) (0)
- Obama's legacy and beyond (2016) (0)
- The Vertical Alliance Today (2011) (0)
- 1. Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism (2015) (0)
- What’s wrong with rights? (2021) (0)
- Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation. By Pierre Birnbaum. Translated by, Charlotte Mandell. Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Edited by, Aron Rodrigue and Steven J. Zipperstein. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008. Pp. ix+479. $65.00.Judaism Musical an (2009) (0)
- In-Between the Public and the Private (2021) (0)
- Preface (2020) (0)
- 26. Donald Trump and the Irrelevance of Human Rights (2018) (0)
- European Intellectual History after the Global Turn (2022) (0)
- To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and the Tragic Origins of Constitutional Theory (2023) (0)
- Joe Renouard. Human Rights in American Foreign Policy: From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse. (2016) (0)
- Modernity and the Specter of Totalitarianism (2019) (0)
- Luke Glanville, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. Pp. x + 294. $32.50 paper (ISBN 9780226076928). (2015) (0)
- The Ghosts of Totalitarianism (2004) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- Rights (2019) (0)
- Human Rights in Africa. By Bonny Ibhawoh (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2018) 245 pp. $96.99 cloth $29.99 paper (2019) (0)
- 12. Coals to Newcastle (2018) (0)
- Thomas Paine and the idea of human rights (2016) (0)
- Global Reconfigurations, Constitutional Obligations, and Everyday Life (2018) (0)
- Foreword (2020) (0)
- The Choice of the Jews under Vichy: Between Submission and Resistance, Adam Rayski (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2005), xvi + 388 pp., $35.00. (2007) (0)
- Welfare World (2017) (0)
- Human Rights and Humanitarianization (2020) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2008) (0)
- Introduction (2021) (0)
- A Discussion of Kathryn Sikkink's Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century (2019) (0)
- The Irrelevance of the Pandemic (2020) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- Studying the Fault Lines (2011) (0)
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