The Anxious Object: Art Today and Its Audience, by Harold Rosenberg by Henry David Aiken Not least among Mr. Rosenberg's manifest powers as a chronicler, front-runner, and occasional monitor to "the art establishment," as he…
The Revolt Against Ideology by Henry David Aiken Can it any longer be doubted that, on all sides of the Iron Curtain, the age of Leviathan is upon…
Free Will (Again) by Henry David Aiken It is not just the terms of the free-will controversy that are, or have become, problematical. The very meaning, or…
American Pragmatism Reconsidered: III. John Dewey by Henry David Aiken IN CLAIMING THAT John Dewey's Art as Experience marks a turning point in the development both of pragmatism and of…
American Pragmatism Reconsidered: II. William James by Henry David Aiken IN THE OPENING chapter of his Pragmatism, William James characterizes his own version of the gospel of pragmatism as a…
American Pragmatism Reconsidered: I. Charles Sanders Peirce by Henry David Aiken THE TIME IS long past since Charles Peirce somewhat querulously complained that he was a philosopher of whom "the critics…
The Study of Man: Sidney Hook as Philosopher by Henry David Aiken IN AN AGE of analysis, philosophy like everything else has become so technical that its relevance to the conduct of…
From Shakespeare to Existentialism, by Walter Kaufmann by Henry David Aiken PROFESSOR KAUFMANN'S new book purports to and historical development of ideas; is only a collection of scattered reviews, most of…