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Man's Place in the Cosmos and Other Essays
by Seth, Andrew
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Presumed first American edition. 8vo. viii + 308pp. Blue publisher's cloth, gilt spine titles. Crushing and some short closed splits to cloth at spine ends, moderate general shelfwear (boards just peeking through at bottom tips), toning to deckled fore-edge. Else very good (+), clean and tightly bound. Collects five essays ("Man's Place in the Cosmos," "The Present Position of the Philosophical Sciences," "The 'New' Psychology and Automatism," "A New Theory of the Absolute," and "Mr. Balfour and his Critics") by the Scottish philosopher whose views of personal idealism and critical stance towards the Hegelian Absolute proved influential to subsequent thinkers from Bertrand Russell to William James.
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- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001271
- Title
- Man's Place in the Cosmos and Other Essays
- Author
- Seth, Andrew
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1897
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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