Ferrier, James Frederick, metaphysician, 1808-1864
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence of George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher and Critic, and James Frederick Ferrier, Scottish Metaphysical Philosopher.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13139
Scope and Contents
The collection comprises seven letters, 1841 – 1846, between George Henry Lewes (1817 – 1878), English Philosopher and Critic of English Literature and Theatre, and James Frederick Ferrier (1808 – 1864), Scottish Metaphysical Philosopher, instigated by the appearance in October 1841 of an article by Ferrier in Blackwood’s Magazine entitled ‘ The Crisis of Modern Speculation’. The collection is an important and unique parcel of correspondence between the two Philosophers in which mutual...
Dates:
1841-1846.
Six notebooks and three audio cassettes containing a work on J F Ferrier by George Davie.
File
Identifier: Acc.12008
Dates:
circa 1992.
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