Lancelot Hogben's Dangerous Thoughts by Hogben, Lancelot - 1939

Allen & Unwin, London, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Titles, introductory note by the author, & contents list to front. These extremely witty and challenging essays on the history of science, on teaching methods, and on current political and social questions are unified by the common theme that modern science has created the possibility of a collectivist economy of leisure and plenty for all; that its realization demands far-reaching changes in the content of education and wholesale rejection of the mental habits of an age when the price of the comfort and culture of the few was the poverty of the many. 4 pages of publisher's titles (mostly by Hogben) to the rear; loosely inserted review of the book from the New Statesman dated December, 23rd 1939. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 283 + 4 pages. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Previous owner's inscription to fep. in ink,… Read More