Naked Emperors: Essays of a Taboo-Stalker (association copy)
Los Altos: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1982. First edition. Softcover. An association copy, inscribed on the half-title page in green ink: "For Ashley Montagu -- First-class Disturber of the Peace! from Garrett Hardin, March 1983." Uncommon signed. This is the simultaneous paperback release.
Ashley Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and public intellectual known for his progressive stances on race and gender and his criticism of creationism. Hardin was a populations ecologist at UC Santa Barbara renown for his often-anthologized Science essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" and for his sometimes controversial stances on overpopulation. They may have overlapped briefly at UC Santa Barbara in 1962 and 1963. Montagu also provided praise for Hardin's earlier book Nature and Man's Fate.
Naked Emperors follows up on Hardin's earlier collection Stalking the Wild Taboo and offers sections of essays on immigration, evolution (including essays on creationism), human ecology, and language. A very good or better paperback with rubbing and light creasing to spine, otherwise fine; interior is clean and crisp. A nice association. Very good. Item #1129
ISBN: 9780865760332
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