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    Socrates and the Street Car

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    It was at half past ten in the morning that they took me down to the operating room, weary with pain and numb with morphine. Upon my closed eyes I felt, for an instant, the soft, cool touch of the doctor\u27s hand, succeeded immediately after by the warmth and woolliness of gauze and by the pressure of the rubber hood over my nose and chin. I wriggled a moment, coughed, and the pressure vanished. When it came again it brought with it the pungent sweetness of ether. I breathed deep, gasped and breathed deeper, gasped again and pumped for breath, my mouth open and my ears ringing

    The philosophy of William James: selecterd from his chief works

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    The liberal spirit

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    vii, 242 p.; 22 cm

    The structure of lasting peace; an inquiry into the motives of war and peace,

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    Reprinted from the Dial.Mode of access: Internet

    Why religion

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    Mode of access: Internet.1

    Horace Meyer Kallen 1922-1952

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    The papers relate to Kallen's interests in the fields of education, philosophy, Zionism, Jewish affairs, consumerism, co-operative movement, political activism. Correspondence with over 1000 organizations including American Jewish Congress, World Jewish Congress, American Association for Jewish Education, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Julian W. Mack School, Menorah Association, New School for Social Research, President's Commission on Higher Education. About 4,000 individual correspondents including Max Ascoli, Roger Baldwin, Salo W. Baron, Jacob Billikopf, Louis D. Brandeis, Israel S. Chipkin, John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, Philip R. Goldstein, Sidney Hook, Alvin Johnson, Julian W. Mack, Jerome Nathanson, Edmond de Rothschild, George Santayana, Hans Simon, Louis Sturz, Stephen S. Wise.with folder list, English, 152 pp., typed; alphabetic index of correspondents, subjects and organizations, English, 200 pp., typed.Philosopher, writer, educator. Co-founder of the New School for Social Research, New York, in 1919 and dean of its Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Science, 1944-1946. An early advocate of consumer rights and environmental controls. Active in liberal, educational and Jewish groups. Served on government committees: Presidential Commission on Higher Education, New York City Commission on Inter-group Relations. Born in Bernstadt, Germany. Came to the U.S. in 1887

    Il pluralismo culturale. Un dibattito americano (1915-1916)

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    Il volume propone una rilettura del concetto di pluralismo americano e di trans-nazionalità sulla base di due saggi di Randolph Bourne e Horace Kallen, qui tradotti e annotati. Il dibattito sull'identità e l'appartenenza alla nazione sviluppatosi negli Stati Uniti di inizio Novecento e ancora attuale e si è rinnovato nella riconsiderazione del fenomeno delle migrazioni, del multiculturalismo e della convivenza sociale

    Some problems of philosophy; a beginning of an introduction to philosophy,

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    Incomplete at the author's death. Dr. H. M. Kallen has largely prepared the book for the press. cf. Prefatory note, signed Henry James, jr.Includes bibliographical references and index.Mode of access: Internet
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