Autobiography.
Title:
Autobiography.
Author:
Rescher, Nicholas.
ISBN:
9783110332544
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (363 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- ONE: Family Background -- TWO: A German Childhood-Hagen: 1928-1938 -- THREE: An Immigrant Boy-Beechhurst: 1938-1942 -- FOUR: High School Days: 1942-1946 -- FIVE: Queens College-Flushing: 1946-1949 -- SIX: Princeton University: 1949-1952 -- SEVEN: U.S.M.C.-Washington, DC: 1952-1954 -- EIGHT: The RAND Corporation-Santa Monica: 1954-1956 -- NINE: Lehigh University-Bethlehem: 1957-1961 -- TEN: Pittsburgh-The First Years: 1961-1966 -- ELEVEN: Pittsburgh-The Years of Change: 1966-1971 -- TWELVE: Pittsburgh and Oxford: 1971-1974 -- THIRTEEN: Squirrel Hill: 1975-1980 -- FOURTEEN: Wanderings: 1981-1985 -- FIFTEEN: Active Years: 1985-1989 -- SIXTEEN: Changing Priorities: 1990-1995 -- SEVENTEEN: At the Dawn of a New Millennium: 1996-2002 -- EIGHTEEN: Moving On: 2003-2007 -- NINETEEN: A Philosophical Retrospect -- APPENDIX 1: Autodoxography -- APPENDIX 2: The Reschers of Hochberg -- APPENDIX 3: The Landaus of Neukirchen and Goddelsheim -- APPENDIX 4: Reference for Work by and about Nicholas Rescher -- NAME INDEX.
Abstract:
Nicholas Rescher was born in Germany in 1928 and emigrated to the United States shortly before the outbreak of World War II. After training in philosophy at Princeton University he embarked on a long and active career as professor, lecturer, and writer. His many books on a wide variety of philosophical topics have established him as one of the most productive and versatile contributors to 20th century philosophical thought, combining historical and analytical investigators to articulate an amalgam of German idealism with American pragmatism. The book accordingly has two dimensions, both as a contribution to German-American cultural interaction and as a contribution to the history of philosophical ideas.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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