THE MIND IN THE MAKING: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform

Robinson, James Harvey

Edité par Harper & Brothers, 1921

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First Printing with print code 'M-V' indicating December 1921. In first state pale blue DJ with Navy printed lettering. [13], 4-235pp. 8vo, burgundy cloth with gilt stamped lettering, top edge trimmed with deckled fore and tail. Top edge a bit dusted with a handful of spot stains, front fore tail edge just nudged, otherwise exceedingly clean and fresh with tight binding, as close to fine a copy as we are likely to see; with the scarce dust jacket withch shows some rubbing and toning anround the extremities and with just a bit of loss to spine ends, clean and whole otherwise with price of $2.50 intact. Credited by Franklin Le Van Baumer as the seminal study in the nascent field of 'Intellectual History.' James Harvey Robinson was a founding fellow of the New School for Social Research along with his fellow Columbia professors Charles Beard, John Dewey, and Thorstein Veblen, who had all been censured by the university for their stand agains U.S. involvement in WWI. Together, they founded the New School as a progressive institution seeking to improve society and human welfare through education and free inquiry. *The Mind in the Making* was a manifesto for the New School, wherein 'His chief attention has been devoted not to kings and popes, wars and boundary lines, but to the rise and fall of ideas, the comings and goings of beliefs and opinions. It is the past of the human mind that he treats in this book, with a view to promoting its freedom and further expansion. He makes plain the historical reasons for our intellectual bondage, and points the way of escape and the consequent lightening of the worlds burden of stupidity, blindness, and threatening disaster. The mind of man is evidently still in the making, and, historically viewed, has as yet realized but few of the infinite possibilities before it.' (From the DJ).

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• Titre: THE MIND IN THE MAKING: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform
• Éditeur: Harper & Brothers
• Date de parution: 1921
• Reliure: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: NEAR FINE
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
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