La crisis del Humanismo : los principios de autoridad, libertad y función a la luz de la guerra

Maeztu, Ramiro de

La crisis del Humanismo : los principios de autoridad, libertad y función a la luz de la guerra

Ramiro de Maeztu

Barcelona

Editorial Minerva, S. A.

Biblioteca de Cultura Moderna y Contemporánea

1919

Barcelona : Editorial Minerva, S. A., Aribau, 179, [1919]

Spanish

Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War

English

353 p., [1] h. de lám.

Portrait of the author as frontispiece (photogravure), with facsimile signature; publisher's device on the title page

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17,5 × 13 cm

Signaturas numéricas de cuaderno; la última visible es «23» al pie de la p. 353

Wove paper

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Roman typeface of regular size, even inking and good legibility; running head with the work's title and page number on each page

Wove paper (vélin) uniformly darkened and browned; scattered foxing; slight stain on the half-title

Cloth binding

Cloth over boards

Maroon, with gilt stamping on the spine

Plain boards without decoration

Smooth spine divided by gilt fillets; author and title gilt-stamped in the first two panels

Plain light-coloured endpapers

Cloth rubbed and foxed, most visible at the edges, headcap and foot of the spine; spine gilding partly lost; text block firm

An essay in political philosophy written in the wake of the First World War. Maeztu criticizes the principles of authority and liberty as foundations of the modern State and proposes replacing them with the principle of function: society would be ordered by the objective functions each person performs, not by power or individual desire. The work, the author's own Spanish version of his "Authority, Liberty and Function in the Light of the War" (London, 1916), sets out his guild socialism and his turn toward traditionalist thought.

First Spanish edition (Editorial Minerva, Barcelona, 1919) of the work Maeztu had previously published in English. Biblioteca de Cultura Moderna y Contemporánea series. With a frontispiece portrait of the author bearing a facsimile signature. The copy comes from the library of Alfred Gallart i Genís, with his autograph signature on the half-title.

Political philosophy

Theory of the State; critique of liberalism; guild socialism; principle of function; First World War; twentieth-century Spanish thought

Maeztu; La crisis del humanismo; Editorial Minerva; authority; liberty; function; Generation of '98; 1919

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Good; text block firm and complete; crisp printing; browned paper with scattered foxing; cover cloth rubbed, with spine gilding partly lost

Library of Alfred Gallart i Genis

Autograph signature "Alfred Gallart" in ink on the half-title

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