Word: encyclopedist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long, hard effort against the Dragon of Deweyism, Huckster Adler deserves the fur-lined spittoon. But before he sallies forth again, he should straighten out his armor. His recent encyclopedist tendency, his readiness to defend either side of a contradiction (made out to be a virtue in your article), his over-all intellectual hedgehopping show the same irreverence and inconclusiveness that make the philosophies of William James and John Dewey what they are: anti-wisdoms. Mr. Adler may have provided his own criteria for what he chooses to call "Great Ideas," but he has yet to discover a criterion...
Dieckmann is the author of "Le Philosophe" (1948), a critical edition with commentary of Denis Diderot, the 18th century encyclopedist. He has been a fall professor at Washington since...