The Riddle of the Modern World: Of Liberty, Wealth and Equality

by Alan Macfarlane (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2000

  $145.68

  This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995 - Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest Gellner - weaves their lives and works together and through their own words shows how they approached the question of the nature of humanity, our past and our future.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $39.86

  This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest Gellner, weaves their lives and works together and through their own words shows how they approached the question of the nature of man, his past and his future.