Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LXII 1976
Description: London: British Academy, 1977. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 518 pages. With plates & tables. Glassine dustjacket. Light shelfwear. Light wear & light chipping to dustjacket. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1976 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - Rousseau (Master Mind Lecture) . By Jean Starobinski- +Upon such Sacrifices+ (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Philip Brockbank- The Significance of English place-names (Gollancz Lecture) . By Kenneth Cameron- Social Anthropology: a natural science of society? (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture) . By Edmund Leach- The Dancing Siva in early South Indian art (Mortimer Wheeler Lecture) . By Douglas Barrett- Age and Authority in early modern England (Raleigh Lecture) . By Keith Thomas- Naturalism in Book One of Hume+s Treatise of Human Nature (Dawes Hicks Lecture) . By David Pears- Carving Trifles: William King+s Imitation of Horace (Chatterton Lecture) . By John Fuller- Jeremy Bentham and the Greek independence (Exchange Lecture with the Academy of Athens) . By Pan. J. Zepos- Time and Choice (Keynes Lecture) . By G. L. S.. Shackle- Truth, invention, and the meaning of Life (Philosophical Lecture) . By David Wiggins- Waste Land, Holy Land (Warton Lecture) . By Kathleen Raine. New in Very Good dust jacket .

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