Under whatever sky. [Essays]

New York: Viking Press, 1951. Hardcover. Good/None. Inscribed. INSCRIBED/dated on ffep 'To Lucia, From Irwin, Sept. 24, 1951'. Light blue-green cloth boards with spine in a darker blue-green cloth. Titling on spine is worn/darkened to barely legible. Heavily rubbed at bottom corners, especially on the front. Cloth faded at edges and spine. Binding is sound. Interior is unmarked. Upper page edges toned. Lacking dustjacket. 12mo, 5 x 7.5 inches. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'I wish I could pretend that I thought that this seven years' gleaning of themes light and serious constituted an intellectual journal of our era. It would be agreeable to persuade myself that I was a small-sized seismograph of the moral earthquakes of our time. I offer these essays simply as the quite spontaneous soliloquies they were as I wrote them. It would be gratifying to find that they contained highly original observations or constituted a world-shaking revelation. It would be almost as pleasant to find that they disclosed quite unwittingly such a recognizable sense of the pressure and temper of things in our time that almost any reader would say: ' (-from the Introduction). 'Irwin Edman (November 28, 1896 � September 4, 1954) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy. Irwin Edman was born in New York City to Jewish parents. He grew up in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to Columbia University, with which he was to be affiliated his entire adult life. Edman spent his high-school years at Townsend Harris Hall, a New York high school for superior pupils. He then attended Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned his bachelor's degree in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1920. During his student years at Columbia he was a member of the Boar's Head Society. He became a professor of philosophy at Columbia, and during the course of his career he rose to serve as head of the philosophy department. He also served as a visiting lecturer at Oxford University, Amherst College, the University of California, and Harvard and Wesleyan Universities. In 1945 the United States Department of State and the Brazilian government sponsored a series of lectures he gave in Rio de Janeiro. Edman was known for the of his writing and for being an open-minded critic. He was a popular professor and served as a mentor to undergraduate students, notably Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk (Columbia class of 1934), who dedicated his first novel to Edman.' ~Wikipedia. Essays. 246 p. 20 cm.