Tribute to Horace Kallen
KONVITZ, MILTON R.
Tribute to Horace Kallen Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University By Milton R. Konvitz "WHERE IS THE FRUIT? "In the answer to this question, said Emerson, can be found the...
...The true teacher, Bronson Alcott said, will defend his pupils against his own personal influence...
...But, whether the authors mention Kallen or not, his spirit hovers over the words of each of them...
...Only some of the papers are concerned primarily with aspects of Kallen's thought...
...Horace Kallen has been a true teacher in this sense...
...But, whether the authors mention Kallen or not, his spirit hovers over the words of each of them...
...Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University window-dressing...
...When Horace Kallen was 65 years of age, 23 scholars in the fields of philosophy, education, the arts, religion, psychology, science and logic, in a commemorative symposium, Freedom and Experience: Essays Presented to Horace M. Kallen, pointed to the fruit they were privileged to reap from Professor Kallen's work as a Johnny Appleseed of the intellect and spirit...
...their contributions to the book are weighty and each of the essays could easily have been placed i n an important journal...
...Now, in honor of Kallen's seventieth birthday, 13 scholars have honored their master or colleague.* The tribute is one worthy of the occasion, and Professor Ratner deserves our thanks...
...Only some of the papers are concerned primarily with aspects of Kallen's thought...
...Thus, Senator Douglas pays tribute to Kallen for his theory of cultural pluralism and his advocacy of voluntary cooperation...
...And these names, it should be emphasized, do not appear as mere window-dressing...
...Ratner, for Kallen's great contributions to more fields of thought than we have space to enumerate...
...In the answer to this question, said Emerson, can be found the measure of a man...
...T. V. Smith, for the role Kallen played as mediator between the "pioneer individualism" of William James and the "sophisticated corporatism" of John Dewey...
...Thus, Senator Douglas pays tribute to Kallen for his theory of cultural pluralism and his advocacy of voluntary cooperation...
...and he has been also a great teacher, for he has held his mind before us as a mirror, to permit us to learn the secrets of our capacity...
...Ratner, for Kallen's great contributions to more fields of thought than we have space to enumerate...
...for here are important papers by John Dewey, T. S. Eliot, Sidney Hook, Judge Jerome Frank, Senator Paul H . Douglas, T. V . Smith, Ernest Nagel, Benjamin V . Cohen, C. I. Lewis, George Boas, H u Shih, Sidney Ratner and Adelbert Ames Jr...
...Jerome Frank, for Kallen's battle "against all systems, except in so far as they are tentative problem-solving unities which invite destruction in favor of new tentative problem-solving unities...
...The true teacher, Bronson Alcott said, will defend his pupils against his own personal influence...
...It would be difficult to find another book of serious essays boasting writers as distinguished as those who have contributed to Vision and Action...
...T. V . Smith, for the role Kallen played as mediator between the "pioneer individualism" of William James and the "sophisticated corporatism" of John Dewey...
...Jerome Frank, for Kallen's battle "against all systems, except in so far as they are tentative problem-solving unities which invite destruction in favor of new tentative problem-solving unities...
...and he has been also a great teacher, for he has held his mind before us as a mirror, to permit us to learn the secrets of our capacity...
...Horace Kallen has been a true teacher in this sense...
...their contributions to the book are weighty and each of the essays could easily have been placed in an important journal...
Vol. 37 • March 1954 • No. 12
