Horace Kallen

Horace Meyer Kallen ( born August 11, 1882 Silesian city of Bern (today Bierutów ); † February 16, 1974 in Palm Beach, Florida ) was a Jewish-American philosopher.

Son of an Orthodox rabbi, Kallen still came as a child in 1887 in the United States. He received his academic degree (BA ) in 1903 and his doctorate ( Ph.D.) in 1908, both from Harvard University. Until 1911, he taught philosophy there, then to 1918 at the University of Wisconsin. In 1919 he became a professor at the New School for Social Research in New York newly established.

As a pluralist Kallen met all extreme simplifications of philosophical and critical social problems. In his opinion, rejection of complex and difficult rather leads to the gain as a solution, as the rejection of a terrible reality creates terrible.

With others, he argued that cultural diversity and national pride not contradict each other. Therefore, ethnic diversity and respect for other ethnicities and nations would strengthen the United States. He is the formation of the term " cultural pluralism " attributed.

Kallen was the late 1940s, co-initiator of the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc., JCR, which on work done since August 1944 from 1947 by virtue of occupation law was given the task men and heritage loose Jewish cultural property in Germany (primarily American occupation zone), insbes. books, whole libraries and ritual objects, to track at storage sites and secured. Initiator of this action was Salo W. Baron, more well-known people, even in the concrete Ensuring were Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Judah Magnes, Max Weinreich

Selected Works

Some of his works:

  • Decline and Rise of the Consumer. 1936
  • Art and Freedom. 1942
  • Modernity and Liberty. 1947
  • The Liberal Spirit. 1948
  • Ideals and Experience. 1948
  • The Education of Free Men in 1950
  • Patterns of Progress. 1950
  • Cultural Pluralism and the American Idea. 1956
  • Liberty, Laughter, and Tears. 1968

Swell

  • Encyclopedia of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1971 ISBN 3-570-05964-2
  • Sarah Ann Schmidt: Horace M. Kallen. Prophet of American Zionism. Brooklyn N. Y. In 1995.
  • Milton R. Konvitz, eds: The Legacy of Horace M. Kallen. Cranbury 1987

Notes

  • Philosopher ( 20th century)
  • Person (Judaism )
  • University teachers (Harvard University)
  • University teachers ( University of Wisconsin -Madison )
  • High school teachers (The New School)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1882
  • Died in 1974
  • Man
Bachelor's degree University of Wisconsin System Pluralism (philosophy) Integrated Authority File
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