The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
by Dewey, John
- Used
- first
- Condition
- GIlt on spine flaking a little. Name in ink on free front endpaper. 2 facing pp. have browning from a laid in newspaper clipping
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About This Item
New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1929. First Edition. Large 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8". 318 pp. including index. GIlt on spine flaking a little. Name in ink on free front endpaper. 2 facing pp. have browning from a laid in newspaper clipping, a review of this book published in The New Republic. Impression on back free endpaper from a paper clip. A slight fading around margins of front cover and spine. Overall a clean, tight, very good copy.. Gifford Lectures 1929.
Contents: Escape from Peril; Philosophy's Search for the Immutable; Conflict of Authorities; The Art of Acceptance and the Art of Control; Ideas at Work; The Play of Ideas; The Seat of Intellectual Authority; The Naturalization of Intelligence; The Supremacy of Method; The Construction of Good; The Copernican Revolution.
Contents: Escape from Peril; Philosophy's Search for the Immutable; Conflict of Authorities; The Art of Acceptance and the Art of Control; Ideas at Work; The Play of Ideas; The Seat of Intellectual Authority; The Naturalization of Intelligence; The Supremacy of Method; The Construction of Good; The Copernican Revolution.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1503
- Title
- The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action
- Author
- Dewey, John
- Format/Binding
- Large 8vo. 9" x 6-1/8". 318 pp. including index
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Minton, Balch & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
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