The responsibility of the artist : typescript, ca. 1960 / by Jacques Maritain.

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The responsibility of the artist : typescript, ca. 1960 / by Jacques Maritain.

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Original manuscritp typed by the author and based on lectures delivered at Princeton University Council of Humanities in 1951. This is the original typescript from which the printer worked. The book was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in Feb. 1960. The typescript contains holograph corrections by the author as well as printer's corrections in red pencil. The manuscript deals with art and scholasticism, art and poetry, aesthetics, and moral philosophy.

1 item (110 leaves) ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

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The collection documents the physical expansion of the University from its earliest period through the acquisition of large tracts of land in the 20th century, including the properties around Carnegie Lake and numerous farms. Early records document transactions with such Princeton University notables as Nathaniel Fitz Randolph, John Witherspoon, Walter Minto, John and Richard Stockton, and John Maclean. For the most part, the papers consist of standard legal documents with detailed descriptions ...

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Jacques Maritain, a French philosopher and man of letters, was French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948, professor of philosophyat Princeton University from 1948 to 1952 and continued to make his home in Princeton until 1960. His works include TRUE HUMANISM (1936, tr. 1938); ART AND SCHOLASTICISM (1920, tr. 1929); ON THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY (1961). From the description of The responsibility of the artist : typescript, ca. 1960 / by Jacques Maritain. (Peking University Library...

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The Council of the Humanities was founded in 1953 at Princeton University to foster teaching, research and intellectual exchange. It brings together students, faculty, guest scholars, writers and artists in a wide variety of venues and sponsors a broad range of interdisciplinary courses, programs and initiatives, including the creative arts, media studies and the Society of Fellows. In the 1960s with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, the Council of Humanities undertook a project to appr...