Enlightening journey : the autobiography of an American scholar / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rescher, Nicholas.

Philosophers--United States--Biography.

Philosophers.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2002]

Summary:

Enlightening Journey brings the life of the American philosopher, Nicholas Rescher, into the new millennium. The latest in a quartet of autobiographical works, this latest installment charts--in a single volume--the many twists and turns of Rescher's life and career. It takes the reader from Rescher's childhood in Weimar and then Nazi Germany through life as a first generation American during the Depression; as a high school student during World War II and a graduate student at Princeton; as a serviceman during the Korean War to work as a Cold War warrior with the RAND Corporation during the Vietnam War. It traces the evolution of Rescher's career as a professional philosopher and his contribution of over seventy books and more than two hundred articles, many written in the construction of his signature system of pragmatic idealism. The very best in biography, Enlightening Journey offers new insight into the intellectual power and restless curiosity of an extraordinary modern scholar seeking to live out a very ordinary American life.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Family Background 1

Chapter 2 A German Childhood, Hagen: 1928-1939 17

Chapter 3 An Immigrant Boy, Beechhurst: 1938-1942 25

Chapter 4 High School Days: 1942-1946 35

Chapter 5 Queens College, Flushing: 1946-1949 49

Chapter 6 Princeton University: 1949-1952 57

Chapter 7 U.S.M.C., Washington, DC: 1952-1954 73

Chapter 8 The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica: 1954-1956 87

Chapter 9 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA: 1957-1961 107

Chapter 10 Pittsburgh, The First Years: 1961-1966 121

Chapter 11 Pittsburgh, The Years of Change: 1966-1971 135

Chapter 12 Pittsburgh and Oxford: 1971-1974 149

Chapter 13 Retrospect: 1975 167

Chapter 14 Squirrel Hill: 1975-1980 177

Chapter 15 Wanderings: 1981-1985 187

Chapter 16 Retrospect: 1985 203

Chapter 17 Toward the 1990s: 1985-1989 205

Chapter 18 Changing Priorities: 1990-1995 219

Chapter 19 Retrospect: 1995 237

Chapter 20 At the Dawn of a New Millennium: 1996-2002 241

Chapter 21 Retrospect: 2002 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739104225

OCLC:

49566273