This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind and the knowledge of which it is capable. Professor Highet explores the meaning of our culture from the intellectual and moral monuments of the Greeks, Romans, and Judeo-Christians, and our contemporary thinkers. Out of this book comes a clear definition of knowledge and insights into the strength and limitations of the mind.
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This brilliant and eloquent book by a distinguished scholar and critic examines the history, the limits, and the promise of the human mind and the knowledge of which it is capable. Professor Highet explores the meaning of our culture from the intellectual and moral monuments of the Greeks, Romans, and Judeo-Christians, and our contemporary thinkers. Out of this book comes a clear definition of knowledge and insights into the strength and limitations of the mind.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. First edition. About Very good in very good plus dustwrapper. Book has underlining of text. Dustwrapper cover lightly yellowed along top. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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1989 Hixson, Walter L GEORGE F KENNAN; COLD WAR ICONOCLAST NY: Columbia University Press, c1989 first printing 381pp, index, bibliography, notes 8vo As new unread hardcover in as new d/j.
