John Daniel Wild

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Continental Philosophy
20th-century philosophy
Name
John Daniel Wild
Birth April 10, 1902
Death October 23, 1972
School/tradition Empiricism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, Phenomenology
Influenced by Plato, William James, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty

John Daniel Wild (April 10, 1902 – October 23, 1972) was a twentieth century American philosopher. Wild began his philosophical career as an empiricist and realist but became an important figure within the movements of existentialism and phenomenology.

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[edit] Life and Career

Wild was born in Chicago, Illinois. After undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago he received his PhD from Harvard University in 1926.

He taught for a year at the University of Michigan and then at Harvard from 1927 until 1961 when he left to assume the chairmanship of the philosophy department at Northwestern University. Wild moved to Yale in 1963 and, in 1969, to the University of Florida.

He received an honorary doctorate from Ripon College and served as visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago, Hawaii, and Washington. In 1949 he served as president of the Association for Realistic Philosophy. In 1962 Wild, along with William A. Earle, James M. Edie, and others, founded the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.

John Wild died in New Haven, Connecticut.[1]

[edit] Major works

[edit] Books

  • (1936) George Berkeley. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.  552 pages.
  • (1962) (Reissued as) George Berkeley: a study of his life and philosophy. New York: Russell & Russell. 
  • (1946) Plato's Theory of Man: an introduction to the realistic philosophy of culture. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press.  320 pages.
  • (1964) (Reissued). New York: Octagan Press. 
  • (1948) Introduction to Realistic Philosophy. New York: Harper.  516 pages.
  • (1984) (Reissued). Lanham, MD: University Press of America.  ISBN 0819138908 (paper).
  • (1953) Plato's Modern Enemies and the Theory of Natural Law. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.  259 pages.
  • (1955) The Challenge of Existentialism. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press.  297 pages.
  • (1959) Human freedom and social order: an essay in Christian philosophy. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.  250 pages.
  • (1963) Christianity and Existentialism, with James M. Edie and William Earle, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.  186 pages.
  • (1963) Existence and the World of Freedom. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.  243 pages.
  • (1969) The Radical Empiricism of William James. New York: Doubleday.  430 pages.

[edit] Books edited

  • (1930) Benedictus de Spinoza: selections, edited by John Wild. New York: C. Scribner’s sons.  479 pages.
  • (1950) Classics of religious devotion, by John Wild and others. Boston: Beacon.  117 pages.
  • (1953) The Return to Reason: Essays in Realistic Philosophy. Chicago: Henry Regnery.  373 pages.

[edit] Secondary References

  • (1970) Patterns of the life-world; essays in honor of John Wild, James M. Edie, Francis H. Parker, Calvin O. Schrag (eds.), Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press.  414 pages.
  • William E. Kaufman (1996). John Wild: From Realism to Phenomenology. P. Lang.  226 pages. ISBN 0820427969.
  • (2006) The Promise of Phenomenology: Posthumous Papers of John Wild, Richard Ira Sugarman and Roger B. Duncan (eds), Lexington Books.  289 pages. ISBN 0739113666.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ David Carr, Karsten Harries, and John E. Smith, "John Wild 1902-1972," Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 46 (1972-1973), pp. 196-7.