Philosopher
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Overview
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (October 10, 1873 – December 30, 1962) was an American philosopher and intellectual historian, who founded the discipline known as the history of ideas with his book The Great Chain of Being (1936), on the topic of that name, which has been described as 'probably the single most influential work in the history of ideas in the United States during the last half century'. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1932. In 1940, he founded the Journal of the History of Ideas.
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Philosophers who discussed Arthur Oncken Lovejoy
Ideas Arthur Oncken Lovejoy discusses
- Harvard University Press
- German Empire
- Philosophy
- Internet Archive
- Harvard University
- University of California Press
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- Stanford University
- Baltimore
- American Philosophical Society
- Theory of relativity
- Age of Enlightenment
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berlin
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Civil liberties
- Johns Hopkins University
- The Journal of Philosophy
- Communist Party USA
- Josiah Royce
- Literary criticism
- Intellectual history
- Columbia University
- Albert Einstein
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.