Book Reviews
Winter 1942
The Lonely Philosopher
What Nietzsche Means by George Allen Morgan, Jr. Harvard. $4.00 Nietzsche by Crane Brinton. Harvard. $2.50 The obstacles to a full and just understanding of Nietzsche are different in […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1941
The Failure of Naturalism (A Reply to Eliseo Vivas)
A British writer once remarked that all good fallacies when they die go to America, where they are reborn as some Amercian professor’s latest discovery. So it is with the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1953
Philosophy in Mexico
Making Of The Mexican Mind: A Study in Recent Mexican Thought by Patrick Romanell. University of Nebraska Press. $3.75. Pherhaps the most enlightening discovery which a recent first visit to […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1945
The Hellenic Ideal
Paideia by Werner Jaeger. Translated from the German by Gilbert Highet. Three volumes. Oxford. $3.75 per vol. $10.00 the set. Professor Jaeger is not only a first rate classical […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1944
Phenomenology and the Hungry Sheep
The Foundation Of Phenomenology: Edmund Husserl and the Quest for a Rigorous Science of Philosophy by Marvin Farber. Harvard University Press. $6.00. Phenomenology is without question a highly important philosophical […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1944
Partisan and Tendencious
The Machiavellians: Defenders Of Freedom by James Burnham. John Day. $2.50. Professor Burnham’s widely discussed The Managerial Revolution was built around an arresting thesis: that the nexus of social relationships […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1942
Religion and Social Grammar
There is no more ironic illusion than to suppose that one has escaped from illusions. So subtly do the real and the illusory interpenetrate that their difference is never finally […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1940
On the Semantics of Poetry
Discussions about poetry incur a double danger. There is the danger of spoiling the poem under discussion by over-analysis, or by inopportune or inappropriate analysis; and there is the danger […]