Arthur O. Lovejoy and the Quest for Intelligibility

by Daniel J. Wilson

Book Overview

Lovejoy (1873-1962) was America's foremost historian of ideas, a major participant in the philosophical debates of the twentieth century, and a prominent advocate of academic freedom. The product of an emotionally unsettled childhood and an evangelical father, Lovejoy reacted against his father by postulating the certainty of self-sufficient reason. He believed that only the principles of reason could order the world and so make our universe intelligible...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807814318
• ISBN13: 9780807814314
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"