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The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth

Bury, J. B.

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PhilosophyGeneral SociologyHistoriography

ISBN10: 1410212912
ISBN13: 9781410212917
Publisher: Intl Law & Taxation Publ
Published: Apr 10 2004
Pages: 396
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.10 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
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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