The St. Louis Movement in Philosophy, Literature, Education, PsychologyThe book explores the intellectual and cultural movement that emerged in St. Louis, Missouri, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement was characterized by a unique blend of philosophy, literature, education, and psychology, and was heavily influenced by the ideas of German philosophers such as Hegel and Kant. Snider, who was a prominent member of the movement, provides an in-depth analysis of its key figures and their contributions to the fields of philosophy, literature, education, and psychology. He also includes chapters of his own autobiography, giving readers a personal perspective on the movement and its impact on his life and work. |
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Page 336 - These disciples were leaving business for the law and studying at the Harvard law-school; but they saw the whole universe through Hegelian spectacles, and a more admirable homo unius libri than one of them, with his three big folios of Hegelian manuscript, I have never had the good fortune to know.
Page 27 - The time was calling loudly for First Principles. The Civil War had just concluded, in which we all had in some way participated, and we were still overwhelmed, even dazed partially by the grand historic appearance. What does it all mean? was quite the universal question. Of course the answer varied in a thousand shapes ; there was the political, the religious, the social, the economic, even the wholly selfish and sensual answer. Naturally our set sought in philosophy the solution, that is, in Hegel...
Page 425 - Mr. Brockmeyer's deep insights and his poetic power of setting them forth with symbols and imagery furnished me and my friends of those early years all of our outside stimulus in the study of German philosophy.
Page 13 - Logichas had a peculiar doom hanging over it from the moment of its first written line. I have watched it more than half a century, now rising to the surface, then sinking out of sight as if under some curse of the malevolent years. Personally I never used it, never needed it, I had the original and could read it more easily than Brockmeyer's English, which on the whole was very literal - so literal that I often had to turn back to the German, in order to understand the English. Here was supposed...
Page 75 - Of course we, with some public display, sent money for the homeless, provisions for the hungry, and even resolutions of sympathy for the unfortunate city — all of which was of right appearance; but privately everywhere could be heard, without unhappy tears, the pious, scriptural ejaculation: 'Again the fire of heaven has fallen upon Sodom and Gomorrah; may it complete...
Page 28 - Logic." So the St. Louis Movement may be called a child of the period, a peculiar infant indeed, but nevertheless a legitimate birth of the time's spiritual struggle* And this infant seemed to be sent by the time to a world-school for its discipline.!
Page 269 - I followed a somewhat different line, but in the same St. Louis Movement. I had to develop and then to express myself in my own right. I may say here that I also harnessed those two steeds, St. Louis and Concord, to my little wain, not the philosophical but the literary, and kept them prancing together for several years. But my goal remained in the West, even when I was compelled to quit St. Louis; I had no Mayflower tradition to chain me to Plymouth Rock or any other piece of stone.
Page 126 - Hegel is that the very arguments we use against him give forth strange and hollow sounds that make them seem almost as fantastic as the errors to which they are addressed. The sense of a universal mirage, of a ghostly unreality, steals over us, which is the very moonlit atmosphere of Hegelism itself. What wonder then if, instead of converting, our words do but rejoice and delight, those already baptized in the faith of confusion? To their charmed senses we all seem children of Hegel together, only...
Page 12 - ... assaulted and captured for dear life's sake, wherein I was helped often by quick flashes of Brockmeyer's lightning insight. This book has the reputation of being the hardest book in the world, the one least accessible to the ordinary human mind even when academically trained. My wrestle with it was long, intense, and not wholly victorious at the close; still after years of entanglement I pulled through its magic web of abstractions and obstructions, and left them behind me, not lost but transcended....
Page 425 - He impressed us with the practicality of philosophy, inasmuch as he could flash into the questions of the day, or even into the questions of the moment, the highest insight of philosophy and solve their problems. Even the hunting of wild turkeys or squirrels was the occasion for the use of philosophy. Philosophy came to mean with us, therefore, the most practical of all species of knowledge. We used it to solve all problems connected with school-teaching and school management. We studied the "dialectic...