AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: THE REITH LECTURES FOR 1948-9
Written by Bertrand Russell
Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
in 1949
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- PHILOSOPHY
AUTHORITY AND THE INDIVIDUAL: THE REITH LECTURES FOR 1948-9
Written by Bertrand Russell.
Stock no. 1831256
1st.
1949.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
A series of six lectures exploring the balance between social order and individual freedom in modern society. Delivered in 1949, Russell examines how institutions like government, education and religion shape behaviour, often at the expense of personal liberty. Pale yellow cloth boards, green titles. 125 pages plus publisher adverts to rear. Top edge green. Spine lightly browned, some foxing to boards. Text block lightly browned. Inscription in ink to front endpaper. Some scattered foxspots present. Green dustwrapper is browned, stained and marked, title barely visible to spine.
Front cover
Contents
- I. Social Cohesion and Human Nature
- II. Social Cohesion and Government
- III. The Role of Individuality
- IV. The Conflict of Technique and Human Nature
- V. Control and Initiative: their Respective Spheres
- VI. Individual and Social Ethics