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History as the Story of Liberty
Benedetto Croce
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Description for History as the Story of Liberty
Paperback. Translator(s): Sprigge, S. Num Pages: 395 pages, index. BIC Classification: HBA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
Written in 1938 when the Western world had succumbed to the notion that history is a creature of blind force. A reviewer at the time noted the importance of Croce's belief that "the central trend in the evolution of man is the unfolding of new potentialities, and that the task of the historian is to discover and emphasise this trend: the story of liberty". As Croce himself writes, "Even in the darkest and crassest times liberty trembles in the lines of poets and affirms itself in the pages of thinkers and burns, solitary and magnificent, in some men who cannot ... Read more
Written in 1938 when the Western world had succumbed to the notion that history is a creature of blind force. A reviewer at the time noted the importance of Croce's belief that "the central trend in the evolution of man is the unfolding of new potentialities, and that the task of the historian is to discover and emphasise this trend: the story of liberty". As Croce himself writes, "Even in the darkest and crassest times liberty trembles in the lines of poets and affirms itself in the pages of thinkers and burns, solitary and magnificent, in some men who cannot ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Liberty Fund Inc United States
Number of pages
395
Condition
New
Number of Pages
395
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780865972698
SKU
V9780865972698
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About Benedetto Croce
Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) is perhaps best known as the author, in 1902, of Aesthetics, a work of enduring influence.
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