The Idea of Perfection in the Western World

Foss, Martin

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1946

Beschreibung

[From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Pages unmarked. 102 p., 21 cm. "This book is an attempt to prove that while the idea of perfection has been of unquestioned value to the scientist, it has led to many paradoxes and much ambiguity in the fields of metaphysics and human values. The author makes a critical analysis of the idea of perfection as it concerns art, ethics, history, and religion, and tries to suggest a more creative approach." "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2101050033

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Idea of Perfection in the Western World

Verlag: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1946

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good