Books by Arthur O. Lovejoy

The fact that these essays are on the whole critical gives them a heuristic value that dogmatic or expository essays would not have.

These essays do not contribute to metaphysical and epistemological questions; they are primarily historical.

A documentary and analytical record, this work presents the classical background of primitivism and anti-primitivism in modern literature, historiography, and social and moral philosophy. The theories of Plato and Aristotle, and the concepts of cynicism and stoicism are discussed.

From later antiquity to the close of the 18th century, most educated men accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, Lovejoy copiously illustrates the influence of this conception, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.