Contributor
Rockwood, Raymond Oxley, 1907-
Imprint:Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [1958]
Descriptionxxxii, 227 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:"Studies resulting from a symposium held at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, October 13, 1956, as a phase of the sixth annual meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians."
Note:Preface / Raymond O. Rockwood -- 1. Introduction : The right to reassessment / George H. Sabine -- Part I: THE CRITIQUE: 1. Newton's changing reputation in the eighteenth century / Henry Guerlac -- 2. Carl Becker's Heavenly City / Peter Gay -- 3. The Heavenly City and historical writing on the Enlightenment / Walter L. Dorn -- Part II: THE REASSESSMENT: PANEL DISCUSSION COMMENTARY: 4. Carl Becker and the dignity of man / Geoffrey Bruun -- 5. Every word in deadly earnest? / Willson H. Coates -- 6. Becker and the Philosophes' dilemma / Louis Gottschalk -- 7. From manuscript to print: some reflections and comments / Beatrice F. Hyslop -- 8. Thoughts on The Heavenly City / R.R. Palmer -- 9. "Here is this little book" / Gussie E. Gaskill -- Part III: THE REASSESSMENT: THE SYMPOSIUM IN PERSPECTIVE: 10. The Heavenly City: a too-ingenious paradox / Ralph H. Bowen -- 11. Thoughts and afterthoughts / John Hall Stewart -- 12. Reflections on the trial of Carl Lotus Becker / Edward Whiting Fox -- 13. The Heavenly City of Carl Becker / Leo Gershoy.
Bibliography Note:Bibliographical footnotes.
