Martin Lebowitz His Thought and Writings

by Jones, Robert E.

• ISBN13: 9780761809333
• ISBN10: 0761809333
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-11
• Publisher: UPA

Summary

Spanning more than fifty years of contemporary thought, this collection of essays and reviews by one of the century's most distinguished philosophical critics represents an intellectual odyssey that will reward readers with a creative and penetrating gloss on the major scholarly, political, and literary topics of the era. Throughout his long career, Martin Lebowitz continually sought order in society and in intellectual activity. His writings combine reason and passion with a keen and elegant style, reflecting an education both broad and deep. The author's interests over decades in a rapidly changing world extended to all areas of philosophy, ethics and aesthetics, art and literature, physics and psychiatry, sociology and psychology, providing insight into a dazzling array of subjects. Collected here for the first time, these essays and reviews present a profound and coherent system of modern social and philosophical commentary.

Table of Contents

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS	xvii	(2)
INTRODUCTION	xix
THE WRITINGS OF MARTIN LEBOWITZ
1942 Concerning Realism in Literature	3	(4)
1943	7	(26)
On Tradition, Belief, and Culture	7	(6)
Thought and Sensibility	13	(8)
Human Rights and Human Society	21	(2)
Jacques Maritain
The Rights of Man and Natural Law
The Affirmative Aspect of Scepticism	23	(10)
1944	33	(12)
The Function of Philosophy
Arthur E. Murphy
The Uses of Reason
Ideas and Memories
George Santayana
Persons and Places: The Background of My Life
The Historian as Clinician
Lewis Mumford
The Condition of Man
1945	45	(12)
The Moral Intuition
Henry Alonzo Myers
Are Men Equal?
Decline of a Tradition
Ernst Cassirer
An Essay on Man
The Conditions of Peace
Joost Abraham Maurits Meerloo
Total War and the Human Mind
Genetics and Physics
Erwin Schrodinger
What Is Life?
The Everlasting Mr. Huxley
Aldous Huxley
Time Must Have a Stop
1957	57	(4)
Power and Belief
Bernard Rosenberg
David Manning White
Mass Culture
1965	61	(10)
Time and Anxiety
J. B. Priestley
Man and Time
Backseat Driver
Colin Wilson
Beyond the Outsider: The Philosophy of the Future
The Perspective of Time
Stephen Toulmin
June Goodfield
The Discovery of Time
1966	71	(6)
Theology or Camp?
Edwin A. Burtt
In Search of Philosophic Understanding
1967	77	(18)
Making the Violent Scene
Gerold Frank
The Boston Strangler
Fredric Wertham
A Sign for Cain: An Exploration of Human Violence
Best of All Worlds
Charles Douglas McGee
The Recovery of Meaning: An Essay on the Good Life
Successor to Nietzsche
Charles Rycroft
Psychoanalysis Observed
Antidote to Our Worst Tendency
Martin Buber
A Believing Humanism
1968	95	(14)
Sources of Judgment
James Ballowe
George Santayana's America: Essays on Literature and Culture
Criticism and Self-Transcendence
Gaston Bachelard
The Philosophy of No
Renato Poggioli
The Theory of the Avant-Garde
Wylie Sypher
Literature and Technology: The Alien Vision
Penalty and the Preoccupations of Society
Karl Menninger
The Crime of Punishment
1969	109	(28)
Awareness of the Human Predicament
Ronald W. Clark
J. B. S.: The Life and Work of J. B. S. Haldane
Rearing Children Without Parents
Bruno Bettelheim
The Children of the Dream
Anarchy Versus the Reality of Industrial Society
Noam Chomsky
American Power and the New Mandarins
Sex and Human Character
Ashley Montagu
Sex, Man, and Society
Stendhal's Nominalism
Robert M. Adams
Stendhal: Notes on a Novelist
Victor Brombert
Stendhal: Fiction and the Themes of Freedom
America as the World's Educator
Harold Taylor
The World as Teacher
Life and Love in a Disordered Era
Rollo May
Love and Will
The Antidote to Teleology
Kurt Baier
Nicholas Rescher
Values and the Future
Stanley Cavell
Must We Mean What We Say?
H. S. Thayer
Meaning and Action: A Critical History of Pragmatism
To Strengthen the World
Charles Frankel
High on Foggy Bottom: An Outsider's View of the Government
1970	137	(18)
Violence and Mass Society
Philip P. Hallie
The Paradox of Cruelty
Perry London
Behavior Control
Hans H. Toch
Violent Men: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence
Sunnyside World of a Walking Encyclopedia
Hugh Downs
Rings Around Tomorrow
Discipline and Commitment in a Lower Key
Margaret Mead
Rhoda Metraux
A Way of Seeing
The Quest for Meaning in an Uncertain Universe
John K. Roth
Freedom and the Moral Life: The Ethics of William James
John K. Roth
The Moral Philosophy of William James
U.S. Power in the 1960s
Hans J. Morgenthau
Truth and Power: Essays of a Decade, 1960-1970
1971	155	(18)
Indeterminate but Ordered
Werner Heisenberg
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
A Medieval Jolly Green Giant
Kingsley Amis
The Green Man
Where Id Was, Let Ego Be
Jean Piaget
Insights and Illusions of Philosophy
Early Forster Fascinating
E. M. Forster
Albergo Empedocle and Other Writings
Romanticism as Critique of Revolution
Harold Bloom
The Ringers in the Tower: Studies in Romantic Tradition
1972	173	(26)
Mythology in the Space Age
Raphael Patai
Myth and Modern Man
Theories of Family and Society
R. D. Laing
The Politics of the Family and Other Essays
Alasdair MacIntyre
Against the Self-Images of the Age
What Diotima Taught
Charles Frankel
The Pleasures of Philosophy
Historicism and Disorder
Marius Bewley
Masks and Mirrors: Essays in Criticism
Geoffrey H. Hartman
Beyond Formalism: Literary Essays, 1958-1970
Stanley Edgar Hyman
Iago: Some Approaches to the Illusion of His Motivation
Robert Langbaum
The Modern Spirit: Essays on the Continuity of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Literature
W. W. Robson
Modern English Literature
Austin Warren
Connections
Adventures of the Principia
A. J. Ayer
Bertrand Russell
Unifier of Thought and Feeling
Bernard Bergonzi
T. S. Eliot	197	(2)
1973	199	(18)
The Roman Years of Michelangelo
Sidney Alexander
Nicodemus: The Roman Years of Michelangelo, 1534-1564
A Scribbler in the Margins
David Kranes
Margins
Crime and War in Kubrick's Films
Norman Kagan
The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick
The Future of Metaphysics
Robert E. Wood
The Future of Metaphysics
Shaw and His Achievements
Maurice Valency
The Cart and the Trumpet: The Plays of George Bernard Shaw
Freud and Beckett Concurring
Alfred Alvarez
Samuel Beckett
1974	217	(30)
Literature and Myth
Eric Smith
Some Versions of the Fall: The Myth of the Fall of Man in English Literature
John B. Vickery
The Literary Impact of "The Golden Bough"
The Red Terror Doctor
David McLellan
Karl Marx: His Life and Thought
Can Capitalism Be Civilized?
Leonard Silk
Capitalism: The Moving Target
Thinking of Lawrence
Frank Kermode
D. H. Lawrence
Stephen Spender
D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, Poet, Prophet
The Evolution of Our Environment
B. F. Skinner
About Behavior
All Truth Is Half Truth
William McGuire
The Freud/Jung Letters: The Correspondence between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
Extraordinary People and The Answers
Digby Diehl
Supertalk
The Inner Vision of Henry James
Harry T. Moore
Henry James
Tantalizing Puzzle of the Unattainable
Hans Erich Nossack
To the Unknown Hero
The Condition of Life
Wendell Glick
Reform Papers: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau
James McIntosh
Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist: His Shifting Stance toward Nature
God Is an Englishman
I. A. Richards
Beyond
1975	247	(34)
Inadvertent Portrait of Contemporary Disintegration
John Fraser
Violence in the Arts
Confrontation with Nothingness
Patricia Taylert McIvers
Good Night, Mr. Christopher
The State of Literature in Britain
Peter Firchow
The Writer's Place: Interviews on the Literary Situation in Contemporary Britain
Let Us Now Praise James Agee
David Madden
Remembering James Agee
A Guide to Our Perplexity
Louis Auchincloss
Reading Henry James
Shelley and Romantic Egotism
Richard Holmes
Shelley: The Pursuit
Ayer's Questions
A. J. Ayer
The Central Questions of Philosophy
Myths of Sustained Disorder
Peter L. Berger
Pyramids of Sacrifice: Political Ethics and Social Change
Paper Chase of Generations
Bonnie Jones Reynolds
The Confetti Man
The Mystical View of Experience
Laurens van der Post
Jung and the Story of Our Time
A Page of Seminole History Turned
Henry Carlisle
The Land Where the Sun Dies
Natural History of Ideas
Lewis S. Feuer
Einstein and the Generations of Science
1976	281	(24)
Memoirs of the Behaviorist	281	(2)
B. F. Skinner
Particulars of My Life
Humanizing the Dismal Science
Eli Ginzberg
The Human Economy
Eugen Loebl
Humanomics
Freudianism as Fairy Tale
Bruno Bettelheim
The Uses of Enchantment
The Psychology of Common Sense
A. H. Chapman
Harry Stack Sullivan: The Man and His Work
Success and Failure as Indistinguishable
Beryl Bainbridge
Sweet William
Physics and Mysticism: The Twain Meet
Fritjof Capra
The Tao of Physics
Modernity or Maternity in India
R. K. Narayan
The Painter of Signs
Haunted by Pessimism
James T. Farrell
The Dunne Family
Jung's Bad Conscience
Paul J. Stern
C. G. Jung: The Haunted Prophet
The Snake Pit of Life
Harry Crews
A Feast of Snakes
1977	305	(2)
Odd and Uncanny
Thomas M. Disch
Charles Naylor
Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales
1978	307	(12)
Amusement Park Work Ethic
Robert Stuart Nathan
Amusement Park
Russia's Moment of Truth
Paul Grabbe
Windows on the River Neva
The Nature of the Beast
Len Giovannitti
The Nature of the Beast
The Chaos of Human Perversity
Sterling Watson
Weep No More, My Brothers
A Virginia Scribe Remembers
Virginius Dabney
Across the Years: Memories of a Virginian
The Administrative Concept of Justice
Macklin Fleming
Of Crimes and Rights: The Penal Code Viewed as a Bill of Rights
1979	319	(12)
Blending Myths and Modern Evils
Kate Braverman
Lithium for Medea
The Ascendancy of Appearance
Nicholas Hasluck
Quarantine
Thomas Keneally
Passenger
The Puzzling Mr. Conrad
Frederick R. Karl
The Puzzling Mr. Conrad
Victims of a Savage Civilization
W. S. Kuniczak
The March
1980	331	(10)
Perceptions of Evil
Jeffrey Burton Russell
The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity
Literary Menage on Cape Cod
R. V. Cassill
Labors of Love
Conflict and Antithesis in Plath and Hughes
Marjorie Dickie Uroff
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
The President's Grass
Patricia Breen-Bond
The President's Grass Is Missing
1981	341	(16)
The World According to Ivan
Vladimir Voinovich
Pretender to the Throne: the Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Work of Art on Art Works
Robert Hughes
The Shock of the New
Style in Place of Ideology
Donat Gallagher
A Little Order: Evelyn Waugh, a Selection from His Journalism
The Exile's Loss of Identity	347	(2)
Rolf Schneider
November
Italian Folk Tales	349	(2)
Italo Calvino
Italian Folk Tales
The Melancholy Fate of Three Jewish Generations	351	(2)
Walter Laqueur
Farewell to Europe
George Steiner's Martin Heidegger	353	(4)
George Steiner
Martin Heidegger
1982	357	(12)
Insidious Self-Satisfaction of Human Transactions	357	(2)
Janwillem van de Wetering
The Streetbird
Espionage and Treason	359	(2)
Piers Paul Read
The Villa Golitsyn
Promised Land of Error	361	(2)
Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie
Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
Isaac Singer's Ironic Parables	363	(2)
Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Collected Stories
Metaphysical Reality of the Prosaic World	365	(2)
Richard Ellman
James Joyce
Schindler's Saving List	367	(2)
Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
1983	369	(20)
Romantic Mythmaking	369	(6)
Hugh Honour
Romanticism
V. S. Pritchett
The Myth Makers
Scholder's Art	375	(2)
Joshua C. Taylor, et al.
Fritz Scholder
Earthly Values of an Early Feminist	377	(2)
Judith Thurman
Isak Dinesen
The High Road to Knowledge	379	(4)
A. J. Ayer
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century
Leszek Kolakowski
Religion: If There Is No God
N. Max Wildiers
The Theologian and His Universe
Garcia Marquez's Odd Determinism	383	(2)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Elementary, My Dear William	385	(4)
Umberto Eco
The Name of the Rose
1984	389	(18)
Skinner's Absurd Approach	389	(2)
B. F. Skinner
A Matter of Consequences
Egalitarianism Gone Paranoid	391	(2)
Vassily Aksoynov
The Island of Crimea
Bertrand Russell's America	393	(2)
Barry Feinberg
Ronald Kasrils
Bertrand Russell's America, Vol. 2
The Reign of James	395	(4)
Jacques Barzun
A Stroll with William James
Two Halves of the Same Genius	399	(4)
Peter Ackroyd
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
Frederick Busch
The Mutual Friend
The Advent of Post-Modernism	403	(2)
Ronald Bush
T. S. Eliot: A Study in Character and Style
The Finality of Wisdom	405	(2)
Iris Murdoch
The Philosopher's Pupil
1985	407	(6)
Faulted into Consciousness	407	(6)
Peter Ackroyd
T. S. Eliot: A Life
Edward Callan
Auden: A Carnival of Intellect
John Haffenden
W. H. Auden: The Critical Heritage
1986	413	(6)
Prophets with Honor	413	(6)
Bruce Clayton
Forgotten Prophet: The Life of Randolph Bourne
Ellendea Proffer
Bulgakov: Life and Work
1987	419	(6)
The Language of Chaos	419	(6)
Michael Beehler
T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and the Discourses of Difference
A. Zee
Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
1989	425	(4)
Religious Immoralism	425	(4)
Gerald E. Myers
William James: His Life and Thought
Gerhard Wehr
Jung: A Biography
1990	429	(4)
Institutional Societies	429	(4)
Konrad Lorenz
The Waning of Humaneness
1991	433	(14)
A Russian Realist	433	(2)
V. S. Pritchett
Chekhov: A Spirit Set Free
What the Hedgehog Knows	435	(4)
P. B. Medawar
The Threat and the Glory
The Mysterious East	439	(4)
Yasunari Kawabata
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
The Uncynical Disillusion of Graham Greene	443	(4)
Graham Greene
The Last Word and Other Stories
1992	447	(4)
Isaiah Berlin and the House of Intellect	447	(4)
Isaiah Berlin
The Crooked Timber of Humanity	447	(4)
PUBLICATION CREDITS	451	(4)
INDEX	455