The Measure of Man: On Freedom, Human Values, Survival, and the Modern TemperJoseph Wood Krutch's seminal philosophical work. |
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I THE LOSS OF CONFIDENCE | 15 |
GRAND STRATEGY | 34 |
IGNOBLE UTOPIAS | 55 |
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