Firm Heart and Capacious Mind
Jefferson P. Selth
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Description for Firm Heart and Capacious Mind
Hardback. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of Etienne Dumont is the first full-length biography of a Renaissance man, the statesman/publicist/jurist/political writer/man of letters who was hailed by Goethe, Macauley and Stendhal as one of the great intellects of his time. Among other activities he advised Mirabeau (he leader of the National Assembly) in the French Revolution, introduced Jeremy Bentham to the world by publishing ten volumes edited and rewritten from Bentham's notes, and led the political struggle that turned Geneva into a democracy. Dumont also played a direct role in such social reforms as the abolition of ... Read more
Firm Heart and Capacious Mind: The Life and Friends of Etienne Dumont is the first full-length biography of a Renaissance man, the statesman/publicist/jurist/political writer/man of letters who was hailed by Goethe, Macauley and Stendhal as one of the great intellects of his time. Among other activities he advised Mirabeau (he leader of the National Assembly) in the French Revolution, introduced Jeremy Bentham to the world by publishing ten volumes edited and rewritten from Bentham's notes, and led the political struggle that turned Geneva into a democracy. Dumont also played a direct role in such social reforms as the abolition of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
332
Condition
New
Number of Pages
332
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761807209
SKU
V9780761807209
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About Jefferson P. Selth
Jefferson P. Selth is Librarian Emeritus at the University of California at Riverside.
Reviews for Firm Heart and Capacious Mind
...a real landmark: the first book-length study in English of a little known Genevan writer and publicist who played a significant role in the Bowood and Holland House circles of the reign of George II, in the French Revolution, ...and in the global dissemination of the Benthamite system of utilitarianism...Selth is to be congratulated for having blazed a first trail ... Read more