Confronting the Constitution : The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism

Bloom, Allen (editor)

ISBN 10: 0844736996 / ISBN 13: 9780844736990

Published by Washington: The AEI Institute, 1990., 1990

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8vo. xi, 552 pp. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Jacket lightly toned at spine. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Confronting the Constitution : The Challenge to Locke, Montesquieu, Jefferson, and the Federalists from Utilitarianism, Historicism, Marxism, Freudianism
• Publisher: Washington: The AEI Institute, 1990.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844736996
• ISBN 13: 9780844736990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Studies the Constitution in light of philosophical ideas

About the Author

Allan Bloom was Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the College and co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. He taught at Yale, University of Paris, University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, and Cornell, where he was the recipient of the Clark Teaching Award in 1967. He died in 1992.