Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity

by Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas

Book Overview

Now in paperback--Lovejoy and Boas's classic work on the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy.

Primitivism and Related Ideas in Antiquity was intended to be the first volume of a four-part series of books covering the history of primitivism and related ideas, but the outbreak of World War II, and, later, Lovejoy's death, prevented the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801856116
• ISBN13: 9780801856112
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.2"