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Hartshorne and Brightman on God, Process, and Persons
The Correspondence, 1922-1945
Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy
Edited by Randall E. Auxier and Mark Y. A. Davis
184 Pages, 6in x 9in
In 1922 Charles Hartshorne, then an aspiring young philosopher, wrote to Edgar Sheffield Brightman, a preeminent philosopher of religion and one of the earliest members of the Boston School of Personalism. For twenty-three subsequent years, the two carried out an unusually rich and intensive correspondence, and, remarkably, almost every letter was preserved. They are presented here along with additional material that follows the philosophers' lives and interactions after 1945, when Brightman's ill health prevented him from continuing the correspondence.
Mark Y. A. Davies is assistant professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Oklahoma City University. He has written widely on personalism and is review editor for Personalist Forum.
Randall E. Auxier is associate professor of philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He is the editor of the journal Personalist Forum and is a frequent contributor to academic books and journals.
The correspondence between Brightman and Hartshorne has significant historical and philosophical value for what it does to enhance our understanding of their work and its implications for both their time and ours. It is rare good fortune that these letters have been preserved.
--Lewis E. Hahn, editor, The Library of Living Philosophers
It is rare good fortune that these letters have been preserved.
-- Lewis E. Hahn, editor, The Library of Living Philosophers