Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West - Softcover

Buch 40 von 93: Bloomsbury Revelations

Grayling, A C

 
9780747592990: Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights That Made the Modern West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0747592993 ISBN 13: 9780747592990
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2008

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The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Then came revolutions in America and France that swept away monarchies for more representative forms of government and making possible the abolition of slavery, the enfranchisement of women, and the idea of universal human rights and freedoms. Each of these struggles was a memorable human drama, and Grayling interweaves the stories of these heroes, including Martin Luther, Mary Wollstonecraft and Rosa Parks, whose sacrifices make us value these precious rights, especially in an age when governments under pressure find it necessary to restrict rights in the name of freedom.

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A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747592993
ISBN 13 
9780747592990
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1
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352
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