The Hope of the Great Community.

First edition. 8vo. ix, [1], 136, [6, publisher's advertisements] pp., frontispiece portrait of the author. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed (light wear to extremities, some faint marking to spine, a good copy). New York, The Macmillan Company.

A posthumously published collection of six essays on global politics and the Great War written during the final year of Royce's life.

'Josiah Royce (1855–1916) was the leading American proponent of absolute idealism, the metaphysical view (also maintained by Hegel and F.H. Bradley) that all aspects of reality, including those we experience as disconnected or contradictory, are ultimately unified in the thought of a single all-encompassing consciousness. Royce also made original contributions in ethics, philosophy of community, philosophy of religion and logic' (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

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