Word: kallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horace Kallen of New York's New School for Social Research accused some scientists of using "professional expressions" to mystify rather than to clarify, and opposed the unified language movement by declaring: "Common sense advises that a common language guarantees neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have...
...ordered historical argument, whose headings tot up to a respectable "Individualist Manifesto," Kallen contends that present U. S. leaders "neither face nor understand" the present situation. Industrialism, depersonalizing human relations, "has aborted 'Americanism' as an ideal and has thwarted workers as individuals." Constitution-worship, Fascism, Communism spring not from hope but from fear. Since societies exist only by the consent of their members, a withdrawal of consent (as in the case of Prohibition) nullifies society's laws and purposes. The history of the U. S., thinks Kallen, "is the history of an unremitting warfare in behalf...
...Kallen does not believe that "overproduction" is the reason for the world's Depression. " 'Overproduction' is not a fact. Honest overproduction is a creation of a supply in excess of all needs. That has never yet happened. The needs of men have multiplied absolutely and relatively with the expansion of industry. There is not a single honest commodity, whether a necessity of life, a comfort or a luxury, of which enough is produced to supply the living need. But need and purchasing power have not kept pace with each other. . . . The crux of the situation . . . lies...
...Author-Great & good friend of John Dewey, socially-minded U. S. philosopher, and fellow-Pragmatist, Horace Meyer Kallen was born a German Jew, is now a free-thinking U. S. Individual. In many a searching talk Dewey and Kallen mulled over the ideas of Individualism. Originally planned as a collaboration, the book was finally written by Kallen alone. Students at Manhattan's New School for. Social Research, where Kallen lectures on psychology and philosophy, know him as an ironic but earnest speaker, are familiar with his soft, silky tones, his face like that of a large tabby cat with...