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PHILOSOPHY


His ''Language and Reality'', besides its exposition of Cassirer's ideas, has been described as the work “that first introduced Husserl ’s phenomenology to the English speaking world” {Link without Title} . It began with the words “Language is the last and deepest problem for the philosophic mind.”

He was Stone Professor of Philosophy at , succeeded in 1941 by Cassirer {Link without Title} .

He was a critic of .


IN LITERARY CRITICISM


Cleanth Brooks , in ''The Well Wrought Urn'' (1947)In Chapter 11 and Appendix 2., gave extended attention to Urban's views on language and symbolism, as applied to poetry. Suzanne Langer , however, starting from a similar base in Cassirer's thought, had criticized what Urban had to say in detail on poetry, in ''Philosophy in a New Key'' (1942)p. 231, 261.. These matters are discussed in Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt , ''Literary Criticism: A Short History'' (1957)pp.701-2..


WORKS

  • The problem of a "logic of the emotions" and affective memory (1901)

  • Definition and analysis of the consciousness of value (1907)

  • Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory of Value (1909)

  • Ontological problems of value (1917)

  • The Intelligible World: Metaphysics and Value (1929)

  • The philosophy of language (1929)?

  • The church and modern thought: The cure of modern souls (1931)

  • The church and the modern world: The new Erastianism (1935)

  • Language and Reality: The Philosophy of Language and the Principles of Symbolism (1939)

  • Fundamentals of Ethics - An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (1945)

  • Beyond Realism and Idealism (1949)

  • Humanity and Deity (1951)



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