Nonfiction
Winter 1941
Lawrence’s Problems
D.H. Lawrence took his ideas quite seriously. He did not think of himself as an “artist” in the usual sense of this word. He had no use for men who […]
A Communication
Winter 1942
Reply to Mr. Wheelwright
When the editors informed me of their intention to publish in the fall issue, together with my “The New Naturalism,” a criticism by Mr. Philip Wheelwright, I fell in with […]
The Henry James Number
Autumn 1943
Henry and William: Two Notes
A radical temperamental difference seems to separate Henry James from his brother, orienting them towards opposite quarters. This difference expresses itself in many ways, but most obviously through the countries […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1941
The New Naturalism
There is no comprehensive statement for the non-professional reader of the central affirmations of a type of philosophic naturalism that is at present quietly under elaboration in the schools. Indeed, […]
Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
Winter 1989
The Legacy of Sigmund Freud*: Philosophical
Neither difference nor a lively sense of one’s limitations can down the feeling that in spite of the therapeutic value of Freud’s technique of psychoanalysis, the scientific value of the […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1950
Theorists without Theory
Theory of Literature by René Wellek and Austin Warren. New York City: Harcourt Brace, 1949. 403 pages. $4.50 The conflicts now going on between scholars and critics and among […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1948
Historian and Moralist
The Misinterpretation of Man: Studies in European Thought of the Nineteenth Century by Paul Roubiczek. Scribner’s. $2.75 Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver. University of Chicago. $2.75 Both Roubiczek […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1948
Kafka’s Distorted Mask
One need not read very far into The Kafka Problem1 to see how grievously Kafka has suffered at the hands of some of his critics. Mr. Flores has thrown together, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1943
On Symbolism
Philosophy In A New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art by Susanne K. Langer. Harvard. $3.00. I should like to convince my readers that Miss […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1942
From Prometheus to Maitreya
Paths of Life: Preface to a World Religion by Charles Morris. Harpers. $3.00 This book comes as a surprise. Mr. Morris has never denied the importance of religion. But […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1940
The Legacy of Sigmund Freud: An Appraisal: Therapeutic, Literary and Aesthetic, Philosophical
I. Therapeutic By Alexander Reid Martin The concept of the unconscious, the creation of the analytic technique of free association, and the development of a specific form of doctor-patient […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1940
Positive Ethics
Problems of Ethics by Mortiz Schlick. Authorized Translation by David Rynin. Prentice-Hall. $2.00 Many critics have responsibly argued that the method of the positivists is quite inadequate to deal with […]
The New Encyclopedists
Spring 1939
The New Encyclopedists: A Symposium
I. ProBy Eliseo Vivas The history of modern philosophy may be envisaged from many points of view. One of these conceives of its development as an effort to mediate between […]