The Definition of the Thing: With Some Notes on Language

by John William Miller

Book Overview

A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in Masters: Portraits of Great Teachers, edited by Joseph Epstein. While deeply indebted to Plato, Kant, and Hegel, Miller arrived at a strikingly original reinterpretation of the history of philosophy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393300595
• ISBN13: 9780393300598
• Release Date: February 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.3"