Freedom And History
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Freedom
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Author : Donald W. Treadgold
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1990-11
Freedom written by Donald W. Treadgold and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11 with History categories.
A worldwide trend toward democracy is surely one of the more remarkable phenomena of our times, even if the movement twoard that goal may often be haphazard and elusive. Past history will provide a healthy skepticism concerning the likelihood of democracy being reached in the near future in many parts of the world, as well as a preparedness for the possibility that many countries apparently close to the "institutional divide" are going to slip back rather than cross it soon. Nevertheless, the past 2600 years, or even 5000, yield the reassuring message that during that long period freedom has improved its extent significantly, with respect both to geographical breadth and institutional depth. This book is the first to attempt to describe the history of the growth of freedom on a world scale within one single set of covers. It sets out not to redefine freedom nor to discvoer freedom where no one else has, nor to argue that freedom is the proud possession of one country or tradition or people. Its purpose instead is to show how certain elements of free society made their appearance in an amazing variety of places, from ancient Sumeria and China to medieval Japan, modern Czechoslovakia and Costa Rica, in areas both inside and outside of the Western European and North American tradition that will probably be familiar to most readers of the English language edition of this book. The whole story, with its fits and starts, triumphs and tragedies, deserves the thoughtful reflection of everyone who in the wish to establish and protect freedom would avoid needless disappointment and despair and desires to act intelligently to attain the attainable. But even for the quietest, the person who has no faith in human action to improve man's lot, the story is worth pondering, for along with failure and misery it holds much that is noble and uplifting, tells of much gain for humanity through patient suffering and self-sacrifice, and catches a vision of liberty for all in the present an dpossible future that was inconceivable at the dawn of history.
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with History categories.
The History Of Freedom
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2019-09-25
The History Of Freedom written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-25 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Freedom And History
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Author : H D Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2023-10-30
Freedom And History written by H D Lewis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-30 with categories.
First published in 1962, Freedom and History expresses a deep concern about freedom and the way it is imperilled by misunderstandings. Professor Lewis examines works of T.H. Green and compares Green with Locke and Rousseau.
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2021-04-25
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-25 with Philosophy categories.
This book consists of articles reprinted from various journals of Acton, who was one of the great historians of the Victorian period and one of the greatest classical historians of all time. This work includes his other works include Lectures on Modern History and Historical Essays and Studies, which were brought to light after his death.
A History Of Freedom Of Thought
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Author : John Bagnell Bury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
A History Of Freedom Of Thought written by John Bagnell Bury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Free thought categories.
Freedom
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Author : Annelien De Dijn
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-25
Freedom written by Annelien De Dijn and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-25 with Political Science categories.
Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with categories.
History And Freedom
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Author : Theodor W. Adorno
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2014-11-05
History And Freedom written by Theodor W. Adorno and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-05 with Philosophy categories.
Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future course of history was his feelings of solidarity with the victims and losers. As for the future, the course of events was to remain open-ended; instead of finality, he remained committed to a Hölderlin-like openness. This trace of the messianic has what he called the colour of the concrete as opposed to mere abstract possibility. Early in the 1960s Adorno gave four courses of lectures on the road leading to Negative Dialectics, his magnum opus of 1966. The second of these was concerned with the topics of history and freedom. In terms of content, these lectures represented an early version of the chapters in Negative Dialectics devoted to Kant and Hegel. In formal terms, these were improvised lectures that permit us to glimpse a philosophical work in progress. The text published here gives us an overview of all the themes and motifs of Adorno's philosophy of history: the key notion of the domination of nature, his criticism of the existentialist concept of a historicity without history and, finally, his opposition to the traditional idea of truth as something permanent, unchanging and ahistorical.
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays
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Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
The History Of Freedom And Other Essays written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with categories.
