Autobiography / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Rescher, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Collected Papers ; Suppl. vol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophers--United States--Biography.

Philosophers.

Rescher, Nicholas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a contribution to German-American cultural interaction and as a contribution to the history of philosophical ideas

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

Preface

One FAMILY BACKGROUND

Two A GERMAN CHILDHOOD Hagen: 1928-1939 (Age 0-9)

Three AN IMMIGRANT BOY Beechhurst: 1938-1942 (Age 10-13)

Four HIGH SCHOOL DAYS 1942-1946 (Age 13-17)

Five QUEENS COLLEGE Flushing: 1946-1949 (AGE 17-21)

Six PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 1949-1953 (AGE 21-23)

Seven U.S.M.C. Washington, D.C.: 1952-1954 (AGE 23-25)

Eight THE RAND CORPORATION Santa Monica: 1954-1956 (AGE 25-28)

Nine LEHIGH UNIVERSITY Bethlehem: 1957-1961 (AGE 28-32)

Ten PITTSBURGH The First Years: 1961-1966 (AGE 32-38)

Eleven PITTSBURGH Years Of Change: 1966-1971 (AGE 38-42)

Twelve PITTSBURGH AND OXFORD 1971-1974 (Age 42-46)

Thirteen SQUIRREL HILL 1975-1980 (AGE 47-52)

Fourteen WANDERINGS 1981-1985 (AGE 53-57)

Fifteen ACTIVE YEARS 1985-1989 (Age 57-61)

Sixteen CHANGING PRIORITIES 1990-1995 (AGE 62-67)

Seventeen AT THE DAWN OF A NEW MILLENNIUM 1996-2001 (AGE 68-73)

Eighteen MOVING ON Squirrel Hill to Regent Square: 2003-2007 (Age 75-79)

Nineteen A PHILOSOPHICAL RETROSPECT

Appendix 1 AUTODOXOGRAPHY

Appendix 2 THE RESCHERS OF HOCHBERG

APPENDIX 3 THE LANDAUS OF NEUKIRCHEN AND GODDELSHEIM

Appendix 4 REFERENCES FOR WORK BY AND ABOUT NICHOLAS RESCHER

NAME INDEX

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 27, 2014).

ISBN:

9783110332544

311033254X

OCLC:

1013955010