biography
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| (1902–89)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at City College of New York (1923), and earned a doctorate from Columbia University (1927), where he became a disciple of John Dewey, and taught at Columbia until 1972, chairing the philosophy department during 1932–68. He wrote a seminal study of Dewey (1929). Radical as a student, he also wrote influential expositions of Marx's thought (1933, 1936), but he soon revolted against Marxism and became an early ‘neo-conservative’, championing free speech, the cold war against Communism, and liberal social programmes. After retiring he became a senior research fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, CA. |
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