Bücher von Howard B. White

But when any great writer and great thinker reaches out and grasps the whole of human life, the study of his work transcends specialization. I want to thank Richard Kennington, who has taken so much time from his own work to comment meticulously and constructively on this work as on other things I have written.

It was probably Rousseau who first thought of dreams as ennobling experiences. It is the problem of political philosophy and poetry, the problem of Socrates and Aristophanes, of Plato and Homer. Yet, while antiquity usually gives the crown to philosophy, since Rous seau, the alternative view tends to prevail.