Vincent Colapietro is professor of philosophy at Pennsylvania State University and incoming president of the Metaphysical Society of America. He is author of Glossary of Semiotics and Peirce's Approach to the Self and editor of three other books.
This is an important book. John William Miller's ideas are
profoundly relevant to understanding and dealing with a range of
contemporary problems-whether they relate to the nature of
historical understanding, to the conduct of life, or to the history
of philosophy itself-and deserve the systematic presentation and
interpretation that Colapietro offers here."" - Robert H. Elias,
Professor Emeritus, Cornell University
""Colapietro writes a new and important chapter in American thought
by recovering Miller's neglected insights into the interplay
between fate and freedom in human history. We are met with the
paradox that the forms in which freedom expresses itself, while
subject to fate, are not overcome by it, but remain genuine fruits
of human purpose. Miller emerges as a worthy follower of Royce and
Hocking."" - John E. Smith, Yale University
""Colapietro argues that Miller successfully overcomes the dilemmas
of recent historicism, but especially of nihilism and dogmatism.
'Learned' in the best sense of the word, he finds that Miller's
ignored work is topical and important, and allows an engagement
with, for example, not only Heidegger and Sartre, but with Foucault
and Derrida. The comparisons are always provocative. Highly
recommended."" - Peter Manicas, University of Hawaii
""Thank you, Vincent, for preventing the precipitous loss of Miller
within a modernity that prohibits uniqueness, or a post modernity
that prohibits the fabric."" - Society for the Advancement of
American Philosophy Newsletter
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