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...promote interest in philosophy and the humanities the Philosophy Department has announced a series of three lectures by Irwin Edman, visiting lecturer in Philosophy, to be held at 4 o'clock on successive Friday afternoons beginning April 14 In Emerson...
...Tonight at 9:30 WBZ will broadcast the Town Hall of the Air, debating the question, "How Can Philosophy and Religion Meet Today's Needs?" Phi Beta Kappa is cooperating, and has provided the three speakers: Dr. Reinhold Niebubr, Dr. Harry A. Overstreet, and Dr. Irwin Edman...
...confused with Columbia University's philosopher-pedagogue Irwin Edman...
Professor Edman recalls with nostalgia his pleasant childhood and youth on Morningside Heights, the teachers who stimulated him, a few of his more picturesque students (some now stuffed shirts, some leading Communists); he writes of his travels, praises the English, meditates on music, relates an encounter with a big-shot Nazi in Greece. But the spotlight is on those amateur philosophers whom he numbers among the "Society of Itinerant Humanists." One was a French doctor who came to treat Edman's indigestion, launched instead into a discourse on Platonic philosophy. Another is his maid Maria, one of the best...
Along with these portraits Philosopher Edman does not neglect philosophical morals, which consist mainly of advice not to become panicky about the way the contemporary world is going. Spinoza, he points out, went on grinding lenses for a living while war and revolution raged around him in Holland, and Santayana, Edman's Master, meditates serenely on Essences under the very shadow of Mussolini's jaw. Readers will envy Philosopher Edman his ability to enjoy himself. They will not be able to figure out, from this book, quite how to imitate him and may wonder if his poise...