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The Rhetoric of Aristotle with a Commentary (3 volume set) (Harold Fredrik Cherniss's copy, signed by him)
Aristotle, Edward Meredith Cope, John Edwin Sandys; Harold Fredrik Cherniss; Richard Macksey
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.Sequitur Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [Cherness copy, with his signature on front pastedown.] Harold F. Cherniss (1904-1987) was "the country's foremost expert on Plato and Aristotle." - IAS. Cherniss was a good friend of Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project. After Oppenheimer's trial, Cherniss pla…yed a key role in helping Oppenheimer keep his job as director of the Institute for Advanced Study. 3 volume set. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light underlining. Also signed by Richard Macksey. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University. Signed.
