peter gay. Frd: A Life for Our Time. New York: W. W. Norton. 1988. Pp. xx, 810. $25.00 | The Amerin Historil Review | Oxford Amic

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Gay skilfully navigat through Frd’s vast lerary talogue, providg both the personal (i. Do an pecially nice job weavg Frd’s personal life to the narrative; though, mt be reerated: Gay spends the bulk of his bgraphy wrtlg wh the nuanc of Frd’s personal life as relat to his theori. While Gay plac Frd firmly wh an Enlightened tellectual tradn, he also prents Frd as a dialectil thker wrtlg wh speculative ncepts like the metapsychology of human stct and the nature of aggrsn evolutnary blogy.

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