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ITH the publication of these six important
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THE RENAISSANCE
PHILOSOPHY
Of
MAN
Edited
by
Ernst Cassirer, Paul Oskar Kristeller,
and
John
Herman Randall,
Jr.
Selected writings
of Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi,
and Vives, with critical introductions, illuminat–
ing the breadth and vigor of the Italian Renais–
sance.
Pl. $1.7S
THEY WROTE
ON
CLAY
By
Edward
Chiera. Edited by George G. Cam–
eron. A richly illwtrated and rewarding account
of life in the ancient Near East as revealed
through the discovery of the Babylonian clay
tablets. Scrupulous scholarship combined with
the art of the gifted story-teller. "No mystery
nory can be as exciting."-Harper's.
P2. 212 illustrations.
$1.00
THE
CHILD AND
THE
CURRICULUM
&
THE SCHOOL
AND
SOCIETY
By
John
Dewey. With an Introduction
by
Leonard Carmichael. Two profoundly influential
early works by the father of modem progressive
education, based on his experiences with one of
America's first laboratory schools.
P3.
$12S
THE
ROAD TO
SERFDOM
By
Friedrich
A.
Hayek.
One of the great con–
troversial books of our generation, a classic
warning against the dangers to freedom inherent
in social planning, as pertinent today as a decade
ago. "It restates for our time the issue between
liberty and authority."-HENRY HAZLITT, New
York
Times.
P4.
$1.00
MAN AND
THE
STArE
By
Jacques
Maritain. The distinguished Cath–
olic philosopher redefines and re-establishes the
basic principles of democracy in a twentieth–
century context. Gives fresh perspective to our
ideas of sovereignty, ethics, power, and authority.
PS. $12S
THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF
GEORGE HERBERT MEAD
Edited and with an Introduction by Anselm
Strauss. A carefully edited selection of the writ–
ings of the great pragmatist, drawn from his
Mind, Self, and Society;
The
Philosophy of the
Act;
and Movements
of Thought
in the Nine–
teenth Century.
P6.
$I .SO
JHI
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