Lectures on Modern history Liberty, Power, and Conscience in Europe from the Renaissance and Reformation to Revolutionary Liberalism
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Good PressSeitenzahl
180
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22,9/15,2/0,9 cm
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251 g
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Englisch
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978-80-272-9131-1
Lectures on Modern History gathers Acton's Cambridge meditations on the emergence of the modern world, tracing the political, religious, and intellectual forces that reshaped Europe from the Renaissance and Reformation to revolutionary liberalism. Learned, compressed, and morally urgent, the lectures combine archival breadth with aphoristic intensity. They belong to late-Victorian historical scholarship, yet they resist mere chronicle: for Acton, history is an ethical inquiry into liberty, conscience, and the corruptions of power. John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton (1834-1902), was a cosmopolitan Catholic liberal, educated across Europe and formed by both ecclesiastical controversy and continental political thought. As Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge and architect of the Cambridge Modern History, he sought a history capacious enough to judge states, churches, and revolutions by universal moral standards. His famous warning that power tends to corrupt underlies the book's governing purpose. This volume is recommended to readers seeking not an elementary survey but a searching interpretation of modernity's moral drama. Students of historiography, political thought, and European intellectual history will find in Acton a demanding guide: sometimes austere, always principled, and indispensable for understanding how liberal conscience became a historical method.
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