Ideals and Idols: Essays on Values in History and in ArtThis volume of essays deals with values and their place in the humanities. Professor Gombrich argues for the ideals of tolerance and pluralism and against the idols of determinism and relativism that would threaten all culture. |
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Contents
Preface | 7 |
In Search of Cultural History | 24 |
Alternatives to Historicism | 60 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Ideals and Idols: Essays on Values in History and in Art |
| Authors | Ernst Hans Gombrich, Professor E H Gombrich |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Phaidon, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Jan 29, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0714820091, 9780714820095 |
| Length | 224 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / General Art / History / General |
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