The Idea of Progress An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:University Press Of The Pacific
Fr. 34.90
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
10.04.2004
Verlag
University Press Of The PacificSeitenzahl
396
Maße (L/B/H)
20.3/12.7/2.4 cm
Gewicht
475 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4102-1291-7
Practically unknown before the Reformation, the idea of progress has since become one of the central concepts of western civilization. Professor Bury analyzes its evolution in the thought of Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, to its flowering in all branches of science, religion, philosophy, industry, art, and literature during and following the 16th century. Emphasizing the necessity of adhering with rigid exactness to historical facts, the author presents a scheme of ideas upon which to thread the facts of human development which extends to cover the whole range of civilization in its movement through time. In this classic, oft cited volume, Bury writes a form of intellectual history, tracing the development of the idea of progress from the Greeks through its relationship to the idea of evolution. At the time of original publication in 1921, J. B. Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History, and Fellow of King's College, in the University of Cambridge, and was a profound scholar and a philosophic thinker.
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