ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by founder of the New School for Social Research in New York, Horace M. Kallen, touches on topics from language to death and from freedom to value. The author’s treatise explores his understanding of logic and existence.

part |1 pages

Book I

chapter 1|7 pages

Ex Nihilo

chapter 3|23 pages

Creativity, Evolution and the Creative Man

chapter 4|13 pages

Creativity, Death, Nothingness

chapter 5|18 pages

The Genius and His Inspiration

chapter 6|4 pages

Imagination and Image-Making

chapter 8|3 pages

Existence as Value: Culture

chapter 9|5 pages

Original and Image: Truth

chapter 11|5 pages

The Image as Dream

chapter 12|8 pages

Image, Learning, Myth as Survival Values

chapter 13|7 pages

Back to the Word and the Name

chapter 14|10 pages

The Logos of Language

chapter 15|11 pages

Pursuit of Precision, Hunger for Certainty

chapter 16|5 pages

Precision, Certainty, and the Rhetoric Art

chapter 17|6 pages

The Rhetoric of Science

part II|1 pages

Reprise

chapter 18|3 pages

The Time of Our Lives as We Live Them Out

chapter 19|8 pages

Power, Authority and the Price of Peace

chapter 21|6 pages

Some Philosophic Images of the Free Man

chapter 22|8 pages

The Free Man’s Free Society