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E. M. Forster
P. N. Furbank's 1978 two-volume portrait, combined here into one edition, is generally considered the definitive biography of novelist E. M. Forster. "One of the best biographies of a writer I've ever read."--Walter Clemons, "Newsweek"
Behalf
In Behalf P. N. Furbank argues that in thinking about society and politics, one needs to start from the proposition that every human being contains within himself or herself the entire potentiality of the human species and that it is therefore wrong to regard cultural differences as innate. ø This conclusion, in turn, raises doubts about the concept of pluralism as propounded by political philosophers such as Isaiah Berlin. According to Berlin, societies incarnate sets of values that, while good in themselves, might be incommensurable or incompatible with those of other societies. As Furbank shows, however, the epithets ?incommensurable? and ?incompatible? fall to pieces under scrutiny. Fur...
Introduction
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Pound
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Diderot
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The Encyclopédie
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This is Not a Story and Other Stories
All five of the great philosopher and encyclopedist's (1713-1784) quite remarkable short stories, one or two of which have never been translated before, assembled and translated into English by P.N. Furbank. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
