Titles by H.B. Acton

1908 – 1974

H.B. Acton (1908-1974) taught at Bedford College (London), the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Chicago; was editor of Philosophy, the influential journal of the British Royal Institute of Philosophy; and wrote, among other books, The Morals of Markets (1971; Liberty Fund, 1993) and The Philosophy of Language in Revolutionary France (1959).

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The Illusion of the Epoch: Marxism-Leninism as a Philosophical Creed

H.B. Acton

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