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J. B. Bury

The Idea of Progress. An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth Paperback – Unabridged, July 5, 2006

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John Bagnell Bury (1861-1927) was an Irish historian, classical scholar and philologist. He was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin from 1893-1902 before being Regis Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University from 1902 until his death. Bury's writings, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. His two works on the philosophy of history, A History of Freedom of Thought (1913) and The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into its Origin and Growth (1920), elucidated the Victorian ideals of progress and rationality which undergirded his more specific histories. Bury's career shows his evolving thought process and his consideration of the discipline of history as a 'science' and not a branch of 'literature'.

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Publisher : Echo Library (July 5, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 200 pages
ISBN-10 : 1406801089
ISBN-13 : 978-1406801088
Item Weight : 10.5 ounces
Dimensions : 5.98 x 0.46 x 9.02 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #6,389,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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- #10,298 in Philosophy History & Survey

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DANIELLE

meh..

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2013

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Had to buy this book for a class. It was kinda interesting?? It didnt really capture my attention and was hard to understand at times.

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Tsvi Bisk

The Optimistic Jew

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2007

The Commercial Revolution, Scientific Revolution, and Industrial Revolution on the background of Renaissance Humanism that placed the good life on this earth above a good life in the hereafter gave birth to the very concept of progress - the ability of rational human beings to improve individual and collective human conditions by their own efforts and initiative. Postmodernists would call the idea of Progress a "construct" of western civilization, suggesting that it has no objective validation. Even so, it is an idea that has conquered the world. When "progressives" complain about income and wellness gaps between the developed and the developing worlds they are actually endorsing the assumptions underlying the idea of progress - that rational human beings applying their energies in an organized way can solve or ameliorate any natural or manmade problem we face. This is the essence of rational Zionism and the underlying assumption of my own book "The Optimistic Jew: a Positive Vision for the Jewish People in the 21st Century". Bury's book is the classic presentation of the idea of progress.

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