George Tucker: Autobiography and Miscellaneous Philosophical Essays

Résumé du livre

This document was the first in the four-volume series, The Life and Philosophy of George Tucker, published by Thoemmes Press in 2004, which is now out of print. Volumes 2-4 were facsimile reprints of, respectively, Essays on Various Subjects of Taste, Morals, and National Policy (1822), A Voyage to the Moon; with some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the People of Morosofia, and other Lunarians (1827), and Essays, Moral and Metaphysical (1860). Volume 1 was a newly-edited version of his autobiography and several of his philosophical essays that appeared in pamphlets or periodicals.