Author: BRITISH ACADEMY
Title: Proceedings of the British Academy Volume LXVIII 1982
Description: London: The British Academy, 1983. First Edition; First Edition. Original Boards. 666 pages. With plates. Glassine dustjacket. Slight wear & light chipping to dustjacket. ; Hardcover; Annual Volume of Speeches read at the British Academy in 1982 on philosophy, literature, economics, history and literary history. Contents: - The new economic analysis of law: scholarship, sophistry, or self-indulgence? (Maccabaean Lecture in Jurisprudence) . By Guido Calabresi. Read 14 May 1981- The Dating of Middle-Irish Texts (Sir John Rhys Memorial Lecture) . By Gearùid Mac Eoin. Read 28 October 1981- Pindar (Master Mind Lecture) . By Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Read 28 January 1982- Nationalism and the Two Forms of Cohesion in Complex Societies (Radcliffe-Brown Lecture in Social Anthropology) . By Ernest Gellner. Read 3 February 1982- Is Time Real? Responses to an unageing paradox (Dawes hicks Lecture on Philosophy. By R. R. K. Sorabji. Read 10 February 1982- The First West-End Comedy (Shakespeare Lecture) . By Emrys Jones. Read 22 April 1982- Limitations of the +General Theory+ (Keynes Lecture) . By Lord Kaldor. Read 12 May 1982- Persian Painting and the National Epic (Aspects of Art Lecture) . By B. W. Robinson. Read 22 September 1982- Yeats+s late plays: +A high grave dignity and strangeness+ (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry) . By Richard Allen Cave. Read 30 September 1982- Ceasing to Exist (Philosophical Lecture) . By Peter Winch. Read 7 October 1982- Cadbury-Camelot: a fifteen-year Perspective (Mortimer Wheeler Archaeological Lecture) . By Leslie Alcock. Read 13 October 1982- Autobiographical Poetry in the Middle Ages: the case of Thomas Hoccleve (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture) . By J. A. Burrow. Read 4 November 1982- The Isthmus Repaired: The Resurgence of the English aristocracy, 1660-1760 (Raleigh Lecture) . By John Cannon. Read 18 November 1982- Criteria, defeasibility, and knowledge (Philosophical Lecture) . By John McDowell. Read 24 November 1982. New in Very Good dust jacket .

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