Albert William Levi (June 19, 1911 – October 31, 1988) was an American philosopher.
Albert William Levi was born on June 19, 1911, in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1] He received an AB in sociology from Dartmouth College in 1932 and an AM (1933) and PhD (1935) from the University of Chicago.[1][2] His AM and PhD theses were on Plato and John Stuart Mill, respectively.[2]
Levi taught at Dartmouth, Chicago, Black Mountain College, and briefly at two universities in Austria, before becoming a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis,[1] where he was named the David May Distinguished University Professor of the Humanities in 1965.[3][4] After his retirement from Washington University in 1979, he became the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Tulane University.[4]
Levi published over 70 articles and 10 books.[2] His research interests included philosophy of culture, the history of modern philosophy, social philosophy, metaphysics, and aesthetics.[5] He received the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for his book Philosophy and the Modern World (1959).[3] In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Levi to the National Council on the Humanities, the governing body of the National Endowment for the Humanities.[4]
He died on October 31, 1988,[5]inUniversity City, Missouri.[4]
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