Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard

Canonical title: Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard
Original publication date: 1991
People/Characters: Josiah Royce; Sarah Royce; Joseph Le Conte
Dedication: Royce invoked the spirit of "all those faithful lovers of wounded and shuttered communities." To them, the cooperative idealists of the world, who have nourished the beloved community on countless fragmented frontiers, I d... (show all)edicate this work.
First words: Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce was the epitome of a woman whose pioneering life intensified rather than relaxed her deepest moral commitments. She clutched her values around her and set forth to survive.
Last words: (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Call him a frontiersman whose providence was to wear the purple robes of philosophy, and remember that in the year before he died, he came to think that the rest of his life was a resonance from his earliest beginnings. Josiah Royce was a philosopher who was "by destiny forever a frontiersman."
Publisher's editor: Drayton, John; Nestor, Sarah; Myers, Aimee
Blurbers: Smith, John E.

Classifications

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 191 — Philosophy & psychology Modern western philosophy Philosophy of United States and Canada
LCC: B945 .R64 .H56 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Philosophy (General) By period Modern By region or country