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Essays in the Liberal Interpretation of History

Essays in the Liberal Interpretation of History
Essays in the Liberal Interpretation of History
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Kiadó: The University of Chicago Press
Kiadás helye: Chicago-London
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Kötés típusa: Fűzött papírkötés
Oldalszám: 427 oldal
Sorozatcím: Classic European Historians
Kötetszám: P255
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HISTORY
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902) owed his eminence as a historian in large measure to a book he never wrote. He projected a definitive History of Liberty but allowed his insatiable quest for primary sources to obstruct the execution of his magnum opus. His essays and aphorisms, however, have exerted an influence out of all proportion to their volume. Professor McNeill has selected those with the greatest significance for present-day readers.
Although Acton maintained a lifelong belief in an absolute morality and in the liberty that such a morality requires, he was saved from the more optimistic fancies of nineteenth-century liberalism by his recognition of the profound fallibility of man. Intellectually, he had to concede that mankind's record was not so much a history of the progress of freedom as a demonstration of that absolute power which, according to his most famous aphorism, corrupts absolutely.
William H. McNeill, editor of this volume in the... Tovább

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HISTORY
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (1834-1902) owed his eminence as a historian in large measure to a book he never wrote. He projected a definitive History of Liberty but allowed his insatiable quest for primary sources to obstruct the execution of his magnum opus. His essays and aphorisms, however, have exerted an influence out of all proportion to their volume. Professor McNeill has selected those with the greatest significance for present-day readers.
Although Acton maintained a lifelong belief in an absolute morality and in the liberty that such a morality requires, he was saved from the more optimistic fancies of nineteenth-century liberalism by his recognition of the profound fallibility of man. Intellectually, he had to concede that mankind's record was not so much a history of the progress of freedom as a demonstration of that absolute power which, according to his most famous aphorism, corrupts absolutely.
William H. McNeill, editor of this volume in the series, Classic European Historians, is chairman of the Department of History at The University of Chicago. He is the author of The Rise of the West and several other books. Vissza

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