Barrows Dunham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barrows Dunham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barrows |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunham |
| SIGNATURE | DUNHAM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton, N. J. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1925 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Of Philosophy, Love, and E. Y. Harburg
Ethics Dead and Alive
I Wanted Him to Know
Following is the second half of the remarks made by Barrows Dunham at a dinner given him and his wife Alice on the occasion of their sixtieth birthday. They were both born on October 10, 1905, in Mount Holly, New Jersey. When it comes to values, children are the most understanding of us all. I once said to my grandson Robbie, "How is it you're so beautiful?" And he replied, shrugging off the compliment, "And fast, and tough." His older brother Ri…
How Ideas Work
One evening I went out to buy pretzels; the big ones that come in big cans. There was a youngish man in the store, talking with the proprietor—not buying, not selling, but bragging of his skill as a salesman. He had, he said, sold merchandise to a physician who had not wanted it, and on that sale he had made $27. "You have to keep the brain working," he said. Not your brain or my brain but the brain.This article can also be found at the Monthly R…
More on Heroes and Heretics; Rejoinder
I am in general accord with Stephen H. Fritchman's enthusiastic review of Barrows Dunham's Heroes and Heretics (MR, May 1964). This book is a brilliant piece of work and stands out uniquely as a reliable and inclusive socio-political history of dissent in the West. To progressives, radicals, socialists, Communists and anyone else who refuses to conform to the Establishment, this volume gives an invaluable understanding of their prototypes in the …
MR's Fifteenth Anniversary
The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Monthly Review was celebrated at a most successful "birthday party" at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York on Wednesday, May 13th. Barrows Dunham acted as master of ceremonies, and speakers included, in addition to the editors and Scott Nearing, Lorraine Hansberry, H. H. Wilson, Carey McWilliams and Corliss Lamont. E.Y. Harburg, assisted by an able supporting cast which included young singers from a Br…
On Teaching Marxist Epistemology
Materialism is the view that existence does not necessarily involve perceiving or being perceived, knowing or being known. Dialectics is the view that the universe is a system of entities in process of change, the dynamic arising from the impact of the parts on one another. The epistemology of Dialectical Materialism (Marxism) is therefore the view that truth (i.e. the correspondence of a sentence with fact) can be determined by the following rul…
Thinkers, Treasurers, and the Cold War
This is the preface to the new edition of Dunham's pamphlet which was recently reprinted with Epilogue and Explanatory Notes added. We run it here as a sample for those unfortunate readers who are not acquainted with his delightful, penetrating style. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review …
The Love of Wisdom
Maxims Moral and Political
These are exercises in an old literary form, long disused but consecrated by La Bruyère, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, and Chamfort to the distillation of philosophy. Some of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach undoubtedly belong to this tradition. A thought stands naked when expressed in a few words, and has only its native truth and beauty to survive upon. The maxim, or epigram, is thus the severest test of its own content. It needs to be clear, brief…
The Young Guardians
If you, like me, grew radical in order to conserve mankind, you have probably found that you had to conserve a good many human achievements in order to be radical. The eye must look forward, that the body may move and live; the body must keep its health, that the eye may look forward and see.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this a…
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part II & III
The treasurer, we have said, tries to collect the greatest amount of dues from the greatest number of people. He does this better, as a rule, by persuading people to pay rather than by coercing them. And anyway, if he does use coercion, he has to justify it. Some theorizing is unavoidable: if he fails to explain, the membership will begin to suspect that he fears to.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent a…
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part I
I think you and I are in favor of salvation. You may call it, if you like, "the good society" or "the good life" (as a philosopher would) or "efficient living" (as a scientist or businessman would). I a little prefer the old, grand theological word, because it suggests a reference to something extremely important and extremely hard to get. But I don't mean anything supernatural by it—and neither would the theologians, if they truly knew their own…
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part IV
Middle-class philosophy, within certain limits, is a highly competitive enterprise. Perhaps it is the only part of capitalism in which something like free enterprise prevails. You can be a pragmatist, or a positivist, or a (naive or neo- or critical or Cambridge) realist, or a (monistic or pluralistic) idealist, or an existentialist, or many another kind of -ist, or various combinations of these, or various successions of these. You can fall in a…
Man Against Myth
The Religion and History of the Jains
Research Article| April 01 1925 The Religion and History of the Jains Barrows Dunham Barrows Dunham Princeton, N. J. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1925) 24 (2): 191–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-24-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barrows Dunham; The Religion and History of the Jains. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Apr…
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The Religion and History of the Jains
Research Article| April 01 1925 The Religion and History of the Jains Barrows Dunham Barrows Dunham Princeton, N. J. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1925) 24 (2): 191–201. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-24-2-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barrows Dunham; The Religion and History of the Jains. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Apr…
Man Against Myth
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part II & III
The treasurer, we have said, tries to collect the greatest amount of dues from the greatest number of people. He does this better, as a rule, by persuading people to pay rather than by coercing them. And anyway, if he does use coercion, he has to justify it. Some theorizing is unavoidable: if he fails to explain, the membership will begin to suspect that he fears to.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent a…
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part I
I think you and I are in favor of salvation. You may call it, if you like, "the good society" or "the good life" (as a philosopher would) or "efficient living" (as a scientist or businessman would). I a little prefer the old, grand theological word, because it suggests a reference to something extremely important and extremely hard to get. But I don't mean anything supernatural by it—and neither would the theologians, if they truly knew their own…
Thinkers and Treasurers, Part IV
Middle-class philosophy, within certain limits, is a highly competitive enterprise. Perhaps it is the only part of capitalism in which something like free enterprise prevails. You can be a pragmatist, or a positivist, or a (naive or neo- or critical or Cambridge) realist, or a (monistic or pluralistic) idealist, or an existentialist, or many another kind of -ist, or various combinations of these, or various successions of these. You can fall in a…
The Young Guardians
If you, like me, grew radical in order to conserve mankind, you have probably found that you had to conserve a good many human achievements in order to be radical. The eye must look forward, that the body may move and live; the body must keep its health, that the eye may look forward and see.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this a…
Maxims Moral and Political
These are exercises in an old literary form, long disused but consecrated by La Bruyère, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, and Chamfort to the distillation of philosophy. Some of Marx's Theses on Feuerbach undoubtedly belong to this tradition. A thought stands naked when expressed in a few words, and has only its native truth and beauty to survive upon. The maxim, or epigram, is thus the severest test of its own content. It needs to be clear, brief…
The Love of Wisdom
Thinkers, Treasurers, and the Cold War
This is the preface to the new edition of Dunham's pamphlet which was recently reprinted with Epilogue and Explanatory Notes added. We run it here as a sample for those unfortunate readers who are not acquainted with his delightful, penetrating style. —The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review …
On Teaching Marxist Epistemology
Materialism is the view that existence does not necessarily involve perceiving or being perceived, knowing or being known. Dialectics is the view that the universe is a system of entities in process of change, the dynamic arising from the impact of the parts on one another. The epistemology of Dialectical Materialism (Marxism) is therefore the view that truth (i.e. the correspondence of a sentence with fact) can be determined by the following rul…
MR's Fifteenth Anniversary
The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of Monthly Review was celebrated at a most successful "birthday party" at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York on Wednesday, May 13th. Barrows Dunham acted as master of ceremonies, and speakers included, in addition to the editors and Scott Nearing, Lorraine Hansberry, H. H. Wilson, Carey McWilliams and Corliss Lamont. E.Y. Harburg, assisted by an able supporting cast which included young singers from a Br…
More on Heroes and Heretics; Rejoinder
I am in general accord with Stephen H. Fritchman's enthusiastic review of Barrows Dunham's Heroes and Heretics (MR, May 1964). This book is a brilliant piece of work and stands out uniquely as a reliable and inclusive socio-political history of dissent in the West. To progressives, radicals, socialists, Communists and anyone else who refuses to conform to the Establishment, this volume gives an invaluable understanding of their prototypes in the …
I Wanted Him to Know
Following is the second half of the remarks made by Barrows Dunham at a dinner given him and his wife Alice on the occasion of their sixtieth birthday. They were both born on October 10, 1905, in Mount Holly, New Jersey. When it comes to values, children are the most understanding of us all. I once said to my grandson Robbie, "How is it you're so beautiful?" And he replied, shrugging off the compliment, "And fast, and tough." His older brother Ri…
How Ideas Work
One evening I went out to buy pretzels; the big ones that come in big cans. There was a youngish man in the store, talking with the proprietor—not buying, not selling, but bragging of his skill as a salesman. He had, he said, sold merchandise to a physician who had not wanted it, and on that sale he had made $27. "You have to keep the brain working," he said. Not your brain or my brain but the brain.This article can also be found at the Monthly R…
Ethics Dead and Alive
Of Philosophy, Love, and E. Y. Harburg
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