Responses
Below is a sampling of essays that, in various fashions, assess Richard McKeon’s intellectual contributions, including a number by his students from several generations.
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1987 | “Introduction: Richard McKeon and the Renaissance of Rhetoric” by Mark Backman In Richard McKeon, Rhetoric: Essays in Invention and Discovery, ed. Mark Backman (Woodbridge, CT: Ox Bow Press, 1987), pp. vii-xxxii. McK-Rhetoric_Introduction(Backman).pdf 7.7 MB |
1988 | “Richard McKeon’s Conception of Rhetoric and the Philosophy of Culture” by Douglas Mitchell Special Review Essay: Rhetoric: Essays in Invention & Discovery, in Rhetorica vol. 6, no. 4 (Autumn 1988), pp. 395-414. Mitchell_D-ReviewOfRhetoric.pdf 7.7 MB |
1990 | “Preface” by Zahava K. McKeon In Freedom and History and Other Essays: An introduction to the thought of Richard McKeon, ed. Zahava K. McKeon (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), pp. vii-xi. McK-Freedom&History_Preface.pdf 1.6 MB |
1998 | “General Introduction” by Zahava K. McKeon In Selected Writings of Richard McKeon, vol. 1, ed. Zahava K. McKeon and William G. Swenson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 1-21. McK-SelectedWritingsV1_GenIntro.pdf 6.2 MB |
2000 | "McKeon: The Unity of His Thought" by Walter Watson In Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy, ed. Eugene Garver and Richard Buchanan (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 10-28. Watson_W-McKeon'sUnityOfThought.pdf 6.2 MB |
"Memoirs of a Pluralist" by Charles W. Wegener In Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy, ed. Eugene Garver and Richard Buchanan (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 92-109. Wegener_CW-MemoirsOfAPluralist.pdf 6.2 MB |
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"The Ecology of Culture: Pluralism and Circumstantial Metaphysics" by Richard Buchanan In Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy, ed. Eugene Garver and Richard Buchanan (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 135-62. Buchanan_R-EcologyOfCulture.pdf 6.2 MB |
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"McKeon's Contribution to the Philosophy of Science" by Walter Watson In Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy, ed. Eugene Garver and Richard Buchanan (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 163-88. Watson_W-McKeon&PhilOfScience.pdf 6.2 MB |
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"Richard McKeon's Pluralism: The Path between Dogmatism and Relativism" by Wayne C. Booth In Pluralism in Theory and Practice: Richard McKeon and American Philosophy, ed. Eugene Garver and Richard Buchanan (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2000), pp. 213-30. Booth_W-RMcKeon'sPluralism.pdf 6.2 MB |
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2005 | “Foreword” by William G. Swenson In Selected Writings of Richard McKeon, vol. 2, ed. Zahava K. McKeon and William G. Swenson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp. ix-xxiv. McK-SelectedWritingsV2_Foreword.pdf 5.1 MB |