Shapes of philosophical history - Manuel, Frank Edward (Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press, 1965)
The wicked dance in circles : early Christians against the pagans -- Ascending Jacob's ladder : the way of St. Augustine or of the Abbot Joachim -- Ixion's wheel : the Renaissance ponders the vicissitudes -- Man is a crooked stick : Kant and the debate on moral destiny -- Taming the future : the French idea of perfectibility -- Leaps into free consciousness : resonances from the German academy -- An uneasy consensus : the twentieth-century prospect.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: History -- Philosophy