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Enlightening Journey brings the life of the American philosopher, Nicholas Rescher, into the new millennium. The latest in a quartet of autobiographical works, this latest installment charts-in a single volume-the many twists and turns of Rescher's life and career. It takes the reader from Rescher's childhood in Weimar and then Nazi Germany through life as a first generation American during the Depression; as a high school student during World War II and a graduate student at Princeton; as a serviceman during the Korean War to work as a Cold War warrior with the RAND Corporation during the Vietnam War.
It traces the evolution of Rescher's career as a professional philosopher and his contribution of over seventy books and more than two hundred articles, many written in the construction of his signature system of pragmatic idealism. The very best in biography, Enlightening Journey offers new insight into the intellectual power and restless curiosity of an extraordinary modern scholar seeking to live out a very ordinary American life.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Family Background
Chapter 3 A German Childhood: Hagen, 1928-1939
Chapter 4 An Immigrant Boy, Beechhurst, 1938-42
Chapter 5 High School Days: 1942-1946
Chapter 6 Queens College: Flushing, 1946-1949
Chapter 7 Princeton University: 1949-1952
Chapter 8 U.S.M.C. Washington, DC: 1952-1954
Chapter 9 The RAND Corporation: Santa Monica, 1954-1956
Chapter 10 Lehigh University: Bethlehem, PA, 1957-1961
Chapter 11 Pittsburgh-The First Years: 1961-1966
Chapter 12 Pittsburgh-The Years of Change: 1966-1971
Chapter 13 Pittsburgh and Oxford: 1971-1974
Chapter 14 Retrospect: 1975
Chapter 15 Squirrel Hill: 1975-1980
Chapter 16 Wanderings: 1981-1985
Chapter 17 Retrospect: 1985
Chapter 18 Toward the 1990s: 1985-1989
Chapter 19 Changing Priorities: 1990-1995
Chapter 20 Retrospect: 1995
Chapter 21 At the Dawn of a New Millennium: 1996-2002
Chapter 22 Retrospect: 2002
Product details
| Published | 04 Sep 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 316 |
| ISBN | 9780739154663 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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