Wilbur Marshall Urban | |
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Born | |
Died | October 15, 1952 | (aged 79)
Spouse | Elizabeth Newell Wakelin |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions |
Wilbur Marshall Urban (March 27, 1873–October 15, 1952) was an American philosopher of language, influenced by Ernst Cassirer. [1] He wrote also on religion, axiology, [2] ethics and idealism. [3]
Urban was born at on March 27, 1873 Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, [4] to the Rev. Abraham Linwood Urban and Emma Louisa (Trexler) Urban. [5]
His Language and Reality, besides its exposition of Cassirer's ideas, has been described as the work “that first introduced Husserl’s phenomenology to the English speaking world”. [6] It began with the words “Language is the last and deepest problem for the philosophic mind.”
He was Stone Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, from 1920 to 1931, [7] and President of the American Philosophical Association in 1925-6. [8] He was then a professor at Yale University, succeeded in 1941 by Cassirer. [9]
He was a critic of Alfred North Whitehead, [10] and of Paul Tillich.
Cleanth Brooks, in The Well Wrought Urn (1947), [11] gave extended attention to Urban's views on language and symbolism, as applied to poetry. Suzanne Langer, however, starting from a similar base in Cassirer's thought, had criticized what Urban had to say in detail on poetry, in Philosophy in a New Key (1942). [12] These matters are discussed in Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt, Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957). [13]
Wilbur Marshall Urban | |
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Born | |
Died | October 15, 1952 | (aged 79)
Spouse | Elizabeth Newell Wakelin |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions |
Wilbur Marshall Urban (March 27, 1873–October 15, 1952) was an American philosopher of language, influenced by Ernst Cassirer. [1] He wrote also on religion, axiology, [2] ethics and idealism. [3]
Urban was born at on March 27, 1873 Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, [4] to the Rev. Abraham Linwood Urban and Emma Louisa (Trexler) Urban. [5]
His Language and Reality, besides its exposition of Cassirer's ideas, has been described as the work “that first introduced Husserl’s phenomenology to the English speaking world”. [6] It began with the words “Language is the last and deepest problem for the philosophic mind.”
He was Stone Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College, from 1920 to 1931, [7] and President of the American Philosophical Association in 1925-6. [8] He was then a professor at Yale University, succeeded in 1941 by Cassirer. [9]
He was a critic of Alfred North Whitehead, [10] and of Paul Tillich.
Cleanth Brooks, in The Well Wrought Urn (1947), [11] gave extended attention to Urban's views on language and symbolism, as applied to poetry. Suzanne Langer, however, starting from a similar base in Cassirer's thought, had criticized what Urban had to say in detail on poetry, in Philosophy in a New Key (1942). [12] These matters are discussed in Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt, Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957). [13]