Introducing one of the most significant writers of France, himself a working man, in whom is incarnated the new self-consciousness of the worker’s world.
DECADENCE, AND OTHER ESSAYS ON THE CULTURE OF IDEAS. By Remy de Gourmont. Translated by William Aspenwall Bradley.
An introduction to Gourmont’s theory of the “disassociation of ideas,” which has been called “the most fruitful and provocative theory since Nietzsche.”
HISTORY: ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE. By Benedetto Croce. Translated by Douglas Ainslie.
A new interpretation of the meaning of history, and a survey of the great historians, by one of the leaders of European thought.
THE NEW SOCIETY. By Walter Rathenau. Translated by Arthur Windham.
One of Germany’s most influential thinkers and men of action presents his vision of the new society emerging out of the War.
THE REFORM OF EDUCATION. By Giovanni Gentile. With an Introduction by Benedetto Croce. Translated by Dino Bigongiari.
An introduction to the philosophy of a great contemporary thinker who has an extraordinary influence on Italian life to-day.
THE REIGN OF THE EVIL ONE. By C. F. Ramuz. Translated by James Whitall. With an Introduction by Ernest Boyd.