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Literature of Democracy

Niebuhr, Reinhold | December 6, 1941 issue

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The article presents information on the book "Fountainheads of Freedom," by Irwin Edman with collaboration with Herbert W. Schneider. Edman, with the assistance of his colleague, Schneider, has performed an invaluable service in arranging this anthology of democratic literature. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets and the Greek philosophers, the anthology follows the development of democratic thought in its various facets, through the classical, the medieval and the modern period. The author provide the anthology with an excellent introduction in which the development of democratic theory in its relation to living history is illumined. The eternal tension between the principle of liberty and the principle of authority is traced in its various historical forms.

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FOUNTAINHEADS of Freedom (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; EDMAN, Irwin; DEMOCRACY; LIBERTY; NONFICTION
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