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                            Introduction
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Irwin Edman   (November 28, 1896 - September 4, 1954) was an American
philosopher and professor of philosophy.


                             Biography
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Irwin Edman was born in New York City to Jewish parents.  He grew up
in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, adjacent to
Columbia University, with which he was to be affiliated his entire
adult life.  Edman spent his high-school years at Townsend Harris
Hall, a New York high school for superior pupils.  He then attended
Columbia University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and earned his
bachelor's degree in 1917 and his Ph.D. in 1920.  During his student
years at Columbia he was a member of the Boar's Head Society.
He became a professor of philosophy at Columbia, and during the
course of his career he rose to serve as head of the philosophy
department.  He also served as a visiting lecturer at Oxford
University, Amherst College, the University of California, and Harvard
and Wesleyan Universities.  In 1945 the United States Department of
State and the Brazilian government sponsored a series of lectures he
gave in Rio de Janeiro.

He was a popular professor and served as a mentor to undergraduate
students, notably future Pulitzer Prize-winning author Herman Wouk.
Wouk sent chapters of what would be his first novel, The Caine Mutiny,
to Edman. Edman, in turn, convinced a Simon & Schuster executive
to publish the
novel.[https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cainemutiny/context/]

He was the brother-in-law of Lester Markel, the longtime Sunday editor
of 'The New York Times'.

In addition to writing philosophical works, Irwin Edman was a frequent
contributor to literary magazines such as 'The New Yorker', 'The
Atlantic Monthly' (later renamed 'The Atlantic'), 'The New York Times
Magazine', 'Harper's Weekly', 'Commentary', and 'Horizon'.

In 1953, Edman was elected vice president of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters (later succeeded by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters).

Edman published many books on philosophy as well as poetry and some
fiction.  His books include 'Philosopher’s Holiday', 'Richard Kane
Looks at Life', 'Four Ways of Philosophy', 'Philosopher's Quest', and
'Arts and the Man: An Introduction to Aesthetics'.

He died, of a heart attack, on September 4, 1954, in New York.


                            Bibliography
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* Arthur Schopenhauer: The World As Will And Idea
* Arts and the man: a short introduction to aesthetics (1939)
* Candle in the Dark : A Postscript to Despair (1939)
* Don Quixote: The Ingenious Man of La Mancha (Introduction)
* Ecclesiastes, with an Essay by Irwin Edman; Odyssey Press, New York,
1946
* Emerson's Essays, First & Second Series Complete in One Volume
* Epictetus. Discourses and Enchiridion. Based on the Translation of
Thomas...
* 'Fountainheads of Freedom: The Growth of the Democratic Idea,' with
Herbert W. Schneider
* Human Traits and Their Social Significance
* John Dewey: his contribution to the American tradition (as editor)
* Landmarks for beginners in philosophy
* Machiavelli: The Prince (Introduction and Preface) (1954)
* Meditations. Marcus Aurelius and His Times. The Transition from
Paganism to Christianity (1945)
* Philosopher's Holiday (1938)
* Philosopher's Quest (1947)
* The Mind Of Paul (1935)
* The Philosophy of Plato. Jowett Translation
* The Philosophy of Santayana
* The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1928)
* The Uses of Philosophy
* The Works of Plato
* The World, the Arts and the Artist
* Under Whatever Sky (1951)


Poetry
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;Collections
* Poems
;List of poems
!width=25%|Title        !|Year  !|First published       !|Reprinted/collected
|Brief introduction to the problems of philosophy       |1950   |
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;Notes


                           External links
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[http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/irwin_edman.html
A Tribute to Irwin Edman on Columbia University's website]
* Edman's introduction to Schopenhauer's main work


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