Melvin Rader

Melvin Miller Rader (1903 – 14 June 1981) was a writer and professor of philosophy at the University of Washington and a civil rights advocate.[1] He taught ethics, aesthetics and political philosophy. In the late 1940s, he was accused of being a communist by the House Un-American Activities Committee,[1] and was later exonerated in 1951 by Attorney General, Smith Troy. Ed Guthman, a Seattle Times investigative reporter, received a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting of the events.[1] In 2009, an endowment fund was created in Rader's name at the University of Washington to fund philosophy students engaged in social justice work.[2]

Major works
  • (1941). The Root Values of Art. Journal of Philosophy 38 (12):324-332
  • (1945). Polarity and Progress. Journal of Philosophy 42 (25):673-683.nd Society. New York: Greenwood Press.
  • (1947). Isolationist and Contextualist Esthetics: Conflict and Resolution. Journal of Philosophy 44 (15):393-407.
  • (1952). A Modern Book of Esthetics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Was widely used as a standard college text in esthetics up to 5th edition (1980)[3]
  • (1953). Crisis and the Spirit of Community. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 27:40 - 58.
  • (1956). The Enduring Questions: Main Problems of Philosophy. New York: Holt.
  • (1958). The Artist as Outsider. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 16 (3):306-318.
  • (1964). Ethics and the Human Community. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
  • (1972). Henry A. Alexander & Melvin Rader. In Memoriam: Bertram Jessup. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 31 (2):149-152.
  • (1973). Alienation. Social Theory and Practice 2 (3):373-379.
  • (1974). Editorial. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (3):319-321.
  • (1974). Dickie and Socrates on Definition. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32 (3):423-424.
  • (1974). The Imaginative Mode of Awareness. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 33 (2):131-137.
  • (1979) Marx's Interpretation of History: New York, Oxford University Press.
  • Paul Dietrichson (1983). Melvin Rader 1903 - 1981. Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 56 (3):406 - 407.
  • (1981) The right to hope: crisis and community. University of Washington Press.

References
  1. Dietrichson, Paul (1983). "Melvin Rader 1903-1981". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 56 (3): 406–407. JSTOR 3131343.
  2. University of Washington, Philosophy Department, webpage.
  3. Rader, Melvin (1980) [1952]. A Modern Book of Esthetics (5th ed.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0030193311.


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