Towards the Light - The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights

Zusatztext 'Grayling charts the progress of liberty from its modern roots in the Reformation through the end of absolute monarchy to contemporary conventions on human rights! pointing out every bloodstain on the way' Informationen zum Autor 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. A.C. Grayling's inspirational history of ideas in action Zusammenfassung Presents the stories of 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.

Product details

• Authors: A. C. Grayling, A.C. Grayling
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780747592990
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9299-0
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, History, PHILOSOPHY / General, Human Rights, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, Western philosophy from c 1800, General and world history, Human rights, civil rights, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general