James Fitzjames Stephen
Subtitle: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521892247
Subjects: Biography: general; History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Politics/International Relations; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: James Fitsjames Stephen was born on 3 March 1829 into the upper-middle classes of an England of which George IV was king, the Duke of Wellington Prime Minister with the Great Reform Act and the death of Jeremy Bentham still three years distant.