IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST: Essays in Honor of Frank Manuel (Archives Internationales de l'Histoire des Idées -- International Archives of the History of Ideas, Vol. 118)

by Bienvenu, Richard T., and Mordechai Feingold, eds

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Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991. vii, 290 pp. Bibliographical notes, index. CONTENTS: Frank Manuel: An appreciation (Martin Peretz). The diffusion of science and the conversion of the Gentiles in the seventeenth century (Michael T. Ryan). Good aristocrats / bad aristocrats: Thomas Hobbes and early modern political culture (Michael Walzer). John Selden and the nature of seventeenth-century science (Mordechai Feingold). Reason and revolution: Political consciousness and ideological invention at the end of the Old Regime (Keith M. Baker). Victor Considerant: The making of a Fourierist (Jonathan Beecher). Utopia and the sharpest anguish of the age? (Richard T. Bienvenu). Auguste Comte and the nebular hypothesis (Silvan S. Schweber). The profits of America: Early nineteenth-century British travel in the United States (Stephen R. Graubard). Hawthorne in utopia (Judith Shklar). Human rights and democracy (Sanford A. Lakoff). Dilthey's "Introduction to the Human Sciences": Liberal social thought in the Second Reich (Jacques Kornberg). Above and beyond party: The dilemma of "Dossiers de l'Action Populaire" in the 1930s (John W. Padberg). Very minor signs of wear to book from minimal handling. Very light soiling and rubbing to dustjacket.. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 17 x 25 cm.

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