Richard Price (172391) was a dissenting minister and political radical who is generally agreed to be one of the greatest thinkers Wales has ever produced. Yet to contemporary readers, he is little known, a situation that Paul Frame aims to change with "Liberty s Apostle," a close look at Price s life and work.
Frame explores Price s philosophical thoughtwhich crucially prefigured some of Kant s central ideasas well as his political activity, which saw him invited to the nascent United States to assist with its financial administration. Though he declined that offer, he was nonetheless...