Nonfiction
Autumn 1940
The Ivory Tower on Wheels
Andre Maurois once remarked that the artist takes to artistic creation as “une consolation de ne pouvoir vivre” This brilliant (though unoriginal) bit of psychology is intriguing alongside what is […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1957
Believing and Burning
Logic Without Metaphysics by Ernest Nagel. Free Press. $6.00. The new pessimism is not just an anxious feeling. It is a theory. The theory has variations, but the theme […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1955
The Space of the Senses
Dynamics Of Art by Andrew Paul Ushenko. Indiana University Press. $3.75. In his attack on materialism and atheism, Bishop Berkeley used an excellent stratagem: he cleared the field of space. […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1954
New Aesthetics
Aesthetics and Language. Essays by ten authors. Edited with an Introduction by William Elton. Philosophical Library. $4.75. Evidently philosophers have discovered something which shadows each part of philosophy. In just […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1949
Man as the Symbolizing Animal
The Philosophy Of Ernst Cassirer edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc. Northwestern. $6.00 When you get caught up in the whirlwind and swift transfigurations of […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1948
The Devil of Discord
The Metaphysical Society by Alan Willard Brown. Columbia University Press. $4.50 I presume that the angels formed the first metaphysical society. With the Great Moderator presiding over it, it […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1947
Philosophy Making a Bridge
The Meeting of East and West by F. S. C. Northrop. Macmillan. $6.00 Goethe and Newton once had a quarrel over the nature of color. The dispute was later settled […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1943
Pictorial Meaning and Picture Thinking
Professor Charles W. Morris, in his essay “Empiricism, Religion, and Democracy,” writes: Imagine a community of men living on a cell in the blood stream of one of us, but […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1939
Beauty as Feeling
Stranger, when you appeared there on the horizon miles to the east, a speck silhouetted against the dawn, you stepped on my toes and bumped into me. Did you not […]
Fiction
Spring 1951
The Outsider
Stephan for thirty years had reached for things beyond his reach but not beyond his grasp and with the quiet of submarine timidity tried to cross the pain of separation, […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1961
Existence into Art
The World Of Art by Paul Weiss. Southern Illinois University Press, $4.50. At the very outset the author should be complimented for having accomplished some difficult things in this book. […]