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The Drama Of The Nineteenth Century: A Lecture Delivered Before The Pittsburg Secular Society, December 16Th, 1888

The Drama Of The Nineteenth Century: A Lecture Delivered Before The Pittsburg Secular Society, December 16Th, 1888

De Cleyre, Voltairine

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9354483933
ISBN13: 9789354483936
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 15 2021
Pages: 26
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A single winter lecture in 1888 captured the stormy conscience of an age. Its questions still haunt us. In The Drama of the Nineteenth Century, Voltairine de Cleyre stands before the Pittsburg Secular Society to examine a century in revolt: against throne and altar, against inherited dogma, in favour of freer minds and lives. This classic freethought lecture, preserved here as the original secular society lecture text, moves between history, philosophy and passionate advocacy, reading almost as a compressed nineteenth century political essay. De Cleyre traces the tensions of the great religion and science debate, and asks what secularism and social progress might demand from ordinary men and women in late nineteenth-century America and beyond. Her voice, forged in the American freethought movement and in classic anarchist writings, speaks with clarity to secular humanist readers, political philosophy students, and anyone drawn to radical nineteenth century politics and their modern echoes. As a comrade in the wider world of Robert Ingersoll freethought yet fiercely her own thinker, de Cleyre offers a vivid snapshot of ideas on the move, questioning authority while refusing easy cynicism. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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