The Meeting of East and West : An Inquiry Concerning World Understanding by F. S. C. Northrop (1979 Reprint Hardcover, no Dust Jacket, 1st Printing)

• Author: Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (1893–1992)
• Illustration: B&W reproductions of Fine Art. .
• Publisher: Ox Bow Press Woodbridge CT U.S.A. 1979

Filmer Stuart Cuckow Northrop (1893–1992) was an American legal philosopher and influential comparative philosopher.

After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College in 1915, then a M.A. from Yale in 1919, he went to Harvard University where he earned a second M.A., then a Ph.D. in 1924. At Harvard, Northrop studied under Alfred North Whitehead, who is remembered as the defining figure of process philosophy and a mathematician. He was appointed to the Yale faculty in 1923 as an instructor in Philosophy, named Professor in 1932. In 1947 he was appointed Sterling Professor of Philosophy and Law. His jurisprudential work primarily concerned sociological jurisprudence.

He chaired the Yale Philosophy department from 1938 to 1940, then was the 1st Master of Silliman College from 1940 to 1947.

This is his most influential work, The Meeting of East and West, originally published in 1946 during the aftermath of World War II. Its central thesis is that East and West both must learn something from each other to avoid future conflict and to flourish together. How that could happen requires understanding ideological assumptions of all sides which leads to new philosophies of culture, art, science and politics in order to manifest a more ideal culture. A significant attempt to develop global unified philosophies. xxiv + 531pp +8pp of illustration plates.

The copy for sale is from the 1979 reprinting by Ox Bow Press arranged with Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

Hardcover has rust cloth boards with gold lettering on front & spine, but no DJ. Minimal wear with square corners. At 1st glance, book looks as new, but ffep has been torn out. Probably to hide ownership or to keep for a signature. At any rate, there are no ownership markings or indication this was publicly owned. Interior is tight, clean and unmarked.
• Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall, 563pp.
• Condition: Acceptable Hardcover w/o DJ – Always privately owned. 1st printing of Ox Bow Edition.
Copyrights 1946, 1974. Reprinted by arrangement with Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. Printed in U.S.A. Stated reprint published in 1979. Front of title page says this copy printed in 1979. 1st printing thus implied and assumed. ISBN: 0-918024-10-2. LCCN: 79-89839. No MSR.