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 formation of the concept of human rights
based on data extracted from digital archives. This enables us to
track the construction of conceptual architectures over time.
Having established the architecture of the concept of human rights,
the book then examines two key moments in its historical formation:
the First Continental Congress in 1775 and the publication of Tom
Paine's Rights of Man in 1792. Arguing that we have yet to fully
understand or appreciate the consequences of the eighteenth-century
invention of the concept "rights of man," the final chapter
addresses our problematic contemporary attempts to leverage human
rights as the most efficacious way of achieving universal equality
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