Lord Acton For Our Time

Author : Christopher Lazarski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501771736
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton for Our Time written by Christopher Lazarski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty—how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization. Acton is known as a historian, or even the historian, of liberty and as an ardent liberal, but there is confusion as to how he understood liberty and what kind of liberalism he professed. Lord Acton for Our Time provides an introduction that presents essentials about Acton's life and recovers his theory of liberalism. Lazarski analyzes Acton's type of liberalism, probing whether it can offer a solution to the crisis of liberal democracy in our own era. For Acton, liberty is the freedom to do what we ought to do, both as individuals and as citizens, and his writings contain valuable lessons for today.

Author : Christopher Lazarski
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501757423
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power Tends To Corrupt written by Christopher Lazarski and published by Northern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834–1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly free society, Acton attempted to see how the principles of self-determination and freedom worked in practice, from antiquity to his own time. But though he penned hundreds of papers, essays, reviews, letters and ephemera, the ultimate book of his findings and views on the history of liberty remained unwritten. Reading a book a day for years he still could not keep pace with the output of his time, and finally, dejected, he gave up. Today, Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Power Tends to Corrupt, Christopher Lazarski presents the first in-depth consideration of Acton's thought in more than fifty years. Lazarski brings Acton's work to light in accessible language, with a focus on his understanding of liberty and its development in Western history. A work akin to Acton's overall account of the history of liberty, with a secondary look at his political theory, this book is an outstanding exegesis of the theories and findings of one of the nineteenth century's keenest minds.

Author : Roland Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300181272
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton written by Roland Hill and published by . This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."--Lord Acton, 1887 Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and religion, and his lifelong preoccupation with human freedom. Yet Acton was in many ways an outsider. He stood apart from his contemporaries, doubting the notion of unlimited progress and the blessings of nationalism and democracy. He differed from fellow members of the English upper class, holding to his Catholic faith. And he angered other Catholic believers by fiercely opposing the doctrine of papal infallibility. In this remarkable biography, Roland Hill is the first to make full use of the vast collection of books, documents, and private papers in the Acton archives to tell the story of the enigmatic Lord Acton. The book describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupted education. Drawing a lively picture of politics and religion at the time, Hill discusses Acton's brief career as a Liberal member of Parliament, his work as editor and owner of learned Catholic journals, his battles for freedom for and in the Catholic Church, his friendship with William E. Gladstone, and his seven years as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Though unable to complete The Cambridge Modern History series he envisaged, Acton transformed historical study and left a legacy of ideas that continues to influence historians today.

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521086882
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Correspondence of Lord Acton and Richard Simpson: Volume 2 written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-03-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834-1902) and Richard Simpson (1820-76) were the principal figures in the Liberal Catholic movement of nineteenth-century England, an ultimately unsuccessful effort to reconcile the Roman Catholic Church with the leading secular thought of the day. They collaborated in editing the Rambler (1858-62) and the Home and Foreign Review (1862-4), two of the most distinguished Catholic periodicals of the period. The correspondence is the record of this collaboration and sheds light on the religious, political and intellectual history of mid-nineteenth-century England. Though heaviest for the years of their joint work on the Rambler and the Home and Foreign Review, the correspondence continued up to 1875, a year before Simpson's death.

Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Lazarski
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501771728
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton for Our Time written by Christopher Lazarski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton for Our Time illuminates the thought of the English historian, politician, and writer who gave us the famous maxim: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Extracting lessons for our current age, Christopher Lazarski focuses on liberty—how Acton understood it, what he thought was its foundation and necessary ingredients, and the history of its development in Western Civilization. Acton is known as a historian, or even the historian, of liberty and as an ardent liberal, but there is confusion as to how he understood liberty and what kind of liberalism he professed. Lord Acton for Our Time provides an introduction that presents essentials about Acton's life and recovers his theory of liberalism. Lazarski analyzes Acton's type of liberalism, probing whether it can offer a solution to the crisis of liberal democracy in our own era. For Acton, liberty is the freedom to do what we ought to do, both as individuals and as citizens, and his writings contain valuable lessons for today.

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258291693
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Freedom and Power written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Hill
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300129807
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton written by Roland Hill and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834-1902), numbered among the most esteemed Victorian historical thinkers, was much respected for his vast learning, his ideas on politics and religion, and his lifelong preoccupation with human freedom. Yet Acton was in many ways an outsider. He stood apart from his contemporaries, doubting the notion of unlimited progress and the blessings of nationalism and democracy. He differed from fellow members of the English upper class, holding to his Catholic faith. And he angered other Catholic believers by fiercely opposing the doctrine of papal infallibility. In this remarkable biography, Roland Hill is the first to make full use of the vast collection of books, documents, and private papers in the Acton archives to tell the story of the enigmatic Lord Acton. The book describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupted education. Drawing a lively picture of politics and religion at the time, Hill discusses Acton's brief career as a Liberal member of Parliament, his work as editor and owner of learned Catholic journals, his battles for freedom for and in the Catholic Church, his friendship with William E. Gladstone, and his seven years as Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. Though unable to complete The Cambridge Modern History series he envisaged, Acton transformed historical study and left a legacy of ideas that continues to influence historians today.

Author : David Mathew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Acton and His Times written by David Mathew and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4G/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W.E. Gladstone written by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: