Albert William Levi

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Albert William Levi (June 19, 1911 –October 31, 1988) was an American philosopher.

Albert William Levi was born on June 19, 1911, in Indianapolis, Indiana. [1] He received an AB in sociology from Dartmouth College in 1932 and an AM (1933) and PhD (1935) from the University of Chicago. [1] [2] His AM and PhD theses were on Plato and John Stuart Mill, respectively. [2]

Levi taught at Dartmouth, Chicago, Black Mountain College, and briefly at two universities in Austria, before becoming a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis, [1] where he was named the David May Distinguished University Professor of the Humanities in 1965. [3] [4] After his retirement from the Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis in 1979, he became the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Tulane University. [4]

Levi published over 70 articles and 10 books. [2] His research interests included philosophy of culture, the history of modern philosophy, social philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics. [5] He received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book Philosophy and the Modern World (1959). [3] In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Levi to the National Council on the Humanities, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities. [4]

He died on October 31, 1988, [5] in University City, Missouri. [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Thompson, Donald Eugene, ed. (1974). "Levi, Albert William: 1911–". Indiana Authors and Their Books, 1917–1966. Wabash College. OCLC   1079124.
  2. 1 2 3 Kavanaugh 1991, p. 22.
  3. 1 2 May, Hal, ed. (1983). Contemporary Authors. Vol. 107. Gale. p.  288. ISBN   0-8103-1907-1. ISSN   0010-7468. OCLC   24564711.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Albert W. Levi; Philosopher, Professor at Washington U." St. Louis Post-Dispatch . November 6, 1988 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. 1 2 Verene, Donald Phillip (1991). "Albert William Levi 1911–1988". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 64 (5): 69–70. ISSN   0065-972X. JSTOR   3130406.

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