Nonfiction
Autumn 1956
Philip Blair Rice and His Philosophy
Those for whom the life of reason is still an essential part of what should be meant by “the human condition” will find encouragement and refreshment in Philip Rice’s distinguished […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1956
Presumption and Petulance
Icon And Idea by Herbert Read. Harvard University Press. $7.50. The Demon Of Progress In The Arts by Wyndham Lewis. Regnery. $3.00. A proper perspective on Sir Herbert Read’s […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1955
Aesthetics on the Stretch
Creation And Discovery, Essays In Criticism And Aesthetics by Eliseo Vivas. Noonday Press. $5.00. In his previous book, The Moral Life and the Ethical Life, Eliseo Vivas announced to the […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1955
Inductive Criticism
The Structure Of Literature by Paul Goodman. University of Chicago Press. $5.00. Paul Goodman has most of the powers which both contemporary literature and the modern conception of an adequate […]
Art and "Symbolic"
Summer 1953
George Santayana: Natural Historian of Symbolic Forms
The death of George Santayana has not been the occasion for any searching reappraisal of his work. He is ignored by the philosophical cognosenti. Nor are his more serious works […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1951
Commonsensical Ethics
An Examination Of The Place Of Reason In Ethics. By Stephen Toulmin. Cambridge University Press. $3.25 FUTURE HISTORIANS of ideas may well come to regard the first half of the […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1962
The Fate of Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
In speaking of the “fate” of twentieth century philosophy, I wish to make clear at the outset that I am talking at the same time of my own fate as […]