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Albert William Levi

Albert William Levi

American philosopher (1911–1988)

Albert William Levi (June 19, 1911 – October 31, 1988) was an American philosopher.

Albert William Levi was born on June 19, 1911, in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1] He received an AB in sociology from Dartmouth College in 1932 and an AM (1933) and PhD (1935) from the University of Chicago.[1][2] His AM and PhD theses were on Plato and John Stuart Mill, respectively.[2]

Levi taught at Dartmouth, Chicago, Black Mountain College, and briefly at two universities in Austria, before becoming a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis,[1] where he was named the David May Distinguished University Professor of the Humanities in 1965.[3][4] After his retirement from Washington University in 1979, he became the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Tulane University.[4]

Levi published over 70 articles and 10 books.[2] His research interests included philosophy of culture, the history of modern philosophy, social philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics.[5] He received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book Philosophy and the Modern World (1959).[3] In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Levi to the National Council on the Humanities, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities.[4]

He died on October 31, 1988,[5] in University City, Missouri.[4]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Thompson, Donald Eugene, ed. (1974). "Levi, Albert William: 1911–". Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1917–1966. Wabash College. OCLC 1079124.
  2. [2]
    Kavanaugh 1991, p. 22.
  3. [3]
    May, Hal, ed. (1983). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 107. Gale. p. 288. ISBN 0-8103-1907-1. ISSN 0010-7468. OCLC 24564711.
  4. [4]
    "Albert W. Levi; Philosopher, Professor at Washington U." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. November 6, 1988 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. [5]
    Verene, Donald Phillip (1991). "Albert William Levi 1911–1988". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 64 (5): 69–70. ISSN 0065-972X. JSTOR 3130406.

Sources

  • Kavanaugh, John F. (1991). "Lived Humanism: The Aesthetic Education of Albert William Levi". Journal of Aesthetic Education. 25 (4): 21–30. doi:10.2307/3332899. JSTOR 3332899.
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