Locke's Education for Liberty

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 272pp. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. Toning, chipping, creasing, and rubbing to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Small tears to top of both sides of jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Bound in maroon cloth over boards with spine lettered in gilt. Faint number stamp to front free end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound.

ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Locke's Education for Liberty presents an analysis of the crucial but often underestimated place of education and the family within Lockean liberalism. Nathan Tarcov shows that Locke's neglected work Some Thoughts Concerning Education compares with Plato's Republic and Rousseau's Emile as a treatise on education embodying a comprehensive vision of moral and social life. Locke believed that the family can be the agency, not the enemy, of individual liberty and equality. Tarcov's superb reevaluation reveals to the modern reader a breadth and unity heretofore unrecognized in Locke's thought.(Publisher).