Letters to the Contrary

“Clever and timely . . . Goodale complicates the presumed universality of human rights, providing an alternative history of the UNESCO process.” —Lynn Meskell, Stanford University   This remarkable collection of letters reveals the debate over universal human rights. Prominent mid-twentieth-century intellectuals and leaders—including Gandhi, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Arnold Schoenberg—engaged with the question of universal human rights.