Anti-Pragmatism: An Examination into the Respective Rights of Intellectual Aristocracy and Social Democracy

by Albert Schinz

Overview

"The Monist" has published an analysis of the French edition of this book, in the July number, 1909, pp. 474-475. Its author, now Associate Professor of French Literature in Bryn Mawr College, was formerly "Professeur agrégé de philosophic" at the University of Neuchatel. The English edition contains some new features: (1) A "warning" in which the author asks his readers to remember that he does not attack a pragmatic conception of life, but only a pragmatic philosophy. (2) The author has taken the trouble in many cases to refer to other philosophers who simultaneously with him had addressed objections to pragmatists similar to his own (e. g., Bakewell, Carus, Creighton, Hibben, etc.) and to emphasize the unanimity of critics on both sides of the ocean. (3) In an Appendix: "Answer to Various Criticisms," Mr. Schinz begins by exposing the comfortable argument of silence so profusely used by pragmatists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663506566
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/25/2020
Pages:	314
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Albert Schinz (1870 – December 19, 1943) was an American French and philosophical scholar, editor, and professor of French literature. Although he was born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Schinz died in the United States at an Iowa State University Hospital, in Iowa City, of pneumonia. Albert graduated from the University of Neuchâtel (1888–1892), and studied at Berlin, Tübingen (Ph.D., 1894), Sorbonne and College de France (1894), and in the United States at Clark University. He taught at the University of Minnesota for one year, then became professor of French literature at Clark University (1897–1898), University of Minnesota (1898–1899), Bryn Mawr College (1899- ), and at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts (1913–1928). He finally retired after teaching French at the University of Pennsylvania in 1941. He spent the rest of his time as a visiting professor at Indiana, Texas, and Iowa University. He was a guest editor for an issue of the Modern Language Journal.