Thomas R Edwards
Biographic Data
| ID | 5932353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas R Edwards |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Edwards |
| SIGNATURE | EDWARDS T R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Three Russian Writers and the Irrational
The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers, including the three important Soviet writers considered by Dr Edwards in this book. Since the 1917 Revolution the polemic between rationalists and irrationalists has become directly relevant to the way life is lived in the Soviet Union, and a knowledge of the irrationalist point of view is essential for an understanding of much of …
Mandeville's Moral Prose
It has been easier to undervalue Bernard Mandeville than to understand him.' He figures, if briefly, in most general studies of eighteenth-century literature, usually as a foil to Shaftesbury; his major work, The Fable of the Bees, exists in an elaborate modern edition; he is occasionally discussed as an interesting minor figure in philosophical or economic history. But he puzzles everyone who studies him, and the academic pleasures of untangling…
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Mandeville's Moral Prose
It has been easier to undervalue Bernard Mandeville than to understand him.' He figures, if briefly, in most general studies of eighteenth-century literature, usually as a foil to Shaftesbury; his major work, The Fable of the Bees, exists in an elaborate modern edition; he is occasionally discussed as an interesting minor figure in philosophical or economic history. But he puzzles everyone who studies him, and the academic pleasures of untangling…
Three Russian Writers and the Irrational
The idea of man as an essentially irrational being has preoccupied some of the most influential of Russian thinkers, including the three important Soviet writers considered by Dr Edwards in this book. Since the 1917 Revolution the polemic between rationalists and irrationalists has become directly relevant to the way life is lived in the Soviet Union, and a knowledge of the irrationalist point of view is essential for an understanding of much of …
Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (1 work) · Geometry (1 work) · History (1 work) · History (1 work) · Irrational number (1 work) · Joseph Conrad and Literature (1 work) · Literature (1 work)