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 Descriptive Summary MS 10 Boas (George) 1891-1980Papers, 1920-1980 Boas, George, 1891- Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 10.4 linear ft. (25 document boxes) English, French The collection spans the years from 1920 to 1980, and consists of correspondence, notebooks, articles, speeches, short stories, and reprints. Of interest are the letters of Lucian Levy Bruhl, French philosopher and sociologist (1857-1939), written between 1926 and 1935; also the letters of Leo Stein to Boas written between 1925 and 1934. There is one letter from John Dewey dated February 7, 1927. The collection totals approximately 150 letters; ca. 500 articles, speeches, short stories, notebooks; and ca. 100 reprints. Administrative Information Provenance

The collection was given to the University in May 1980 by Mrs. George Boas.

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Permission to publish material from this collection must be requested in writing from the Manuscripts Librarian, Milton S. Eisenhower Library, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Md. 21218.

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George Boas Papers MS 10Special Collections,Milton S. Eisenhower Library,The Johns Hopkins University

 Biographical Note

George Boas was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 28, 1891. He took his B.A. and then his M.A. at Brown University in 1913. The following year he studied at Harvard under Josiah Royce. After a year at Columbia he went to the University of California at Berkeley and there he earned his Ph.D in 1917. A period as Instructor in Forensics, begun in 1915, was interrupted by his enlistment in the Army and combat service in France. In 1921 he was brought by Arthur O. Lovejoy to the Johns Hopkins University faculty as Historian of Philosophy. Boas and Lovejoy worked closely together and made Johns Hopkins University a center for the study of the history of ideas.

In the Second World War Boas took leave of absence and served as Lieutenant Commander and later Commander in the Naval Reserve. After the German surrender he was stationed at General Eisenhower's Supreme Allied Headquarters, where he was ranking naval officer. He was subsequently transferred to Brussels at the request of the United States Ambassador, and in Belgium he succeeded in tracing and identifying many major works of art which the Germans had confiscated.

In 1956 Boas retired from Johns Hopkins University but continued to be active as both a teacher and scholar. He was a Fellow at the Center for Humanities at Wesleyan University, and as a visitor held the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the University of Pittsburgh. He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Academie Royale de Belgique. He received a number of honorary degrees. He organized the first exhibition in Baltimore devoted entirely to modern art and in 1938 was one of a 3-man committee that ran the Baltimore Museum of Art in the absence of a director; he was long one of the most influential members of its Board of Trustees.

Boas' learning was vast and his writing prolific. It has been said that no American philosopher of the 20th century wrote on as many subjects as he did. His primary fields of specialization were the history of philosophy, general intellectual history, aesthetics, and art criticism.

He married the sculptress Simone Brangier in 1921. They had two daughters. George Boas died on March 17, 1980.

 Description of Series/Container List Series1: Correspondence Series1: Correspondence

Lucien Levy-Bruhl to George Boas, John Dewey to George Boas, Leo Stein to George Boas; also "Western Round Table on Modern Art," April 1949, transcripts of proceedings.

All other correspondence is filed in Boxes 1-18 under the pertinent subject. For filing, see name of correspondent in card catalogue, and Container List for subject.

 Series 2: Articles, Lectures, Writings Series 2: Articles, Lectures, Writings

Articles, Lectures, Writings of George Boas.

Filed alphabetically by title, Boxes 1-18 (see CONTAINER LIST).

Box Contents 1 Academic Freedom. 1 Academic Freedom Today. 1 Academic Tenure. 1 Adler, Mortimer. 1 Aesthetic Judgment. 1 Aesthetics. 1 Aesthetics and the Artist. 1 Aesthetics of Literature. 2 Africans. 2 Ages of the World. 2 Ajax. 2 Alamanni, Luigi. 2 Alanus de Insulis. 2 Alexander of Aphrodisias. 2 Ambrose. 2 American Indians. 2 Ancient Philosophy. 2 Animals and Man. 2 Anthropology 2 Anti-Christ. 2 Anti-Intellectualism. 2 Anti-Primitivism. 2 Antigone. 2 Are There Two Cultures. 2 Aristotle. 2 Aristotle - Logic. 2 Aristotle - The Meaning of Nature in Aristotle. 2 Aristotle - Method. 2 Aristotle - Miscellaneous. 2 Aristotle - Necessity and Chance. 2 Aristotle - Physics, Presuppositions. 2 Aristotle - Politics. 2 Armory Show. 2 Arnobius. 3 Art & America. 3 Art and Magic. 3 Art and Psychiatry. 3 Art and Subject Matter. 3 Art and Taste. 3 Art Criticism. 3 Art Criticism of Contemporary. 3 Art - Miscellaneous. 3 Art - Modern. 3 Art, Morals, and the Teaching of Art. 3 The Art of Tomorrow. 3 Art - Round Table, New York. 3 Artists. 3 Augustine. 3 Authority and the Church. 3 Authorship. 3 Avitus. 3 Bacon, Francis. 3 Bagehot, Walter. 3 Baker, John Tull. 3 Balance Sheet. 3 Balduin. 3 Baldwin, H. Streett. 3 Bardesan. 3 Bary, Rene. 3 Baudelaire, Charles. 4 Beecher, Henry Ward. 4 Beginnings of Romanticism in America. 4 Being and Existence. 4 Belaval, Yvon. 4 Bell, Charles G. 4 Bellori, Gio. Pietro. 4 Berenger de la Tour. 4 Bernard of Clairvaux. 4 Boas, George - Bibliography. 4 Boas, George - (Civic Design Committee Certificate). 4 Boas, George - "The Critic's Eye." 4 Boas, George - JHU Magazine, Sept. 1973, p.39 re Boas. 4 Boas, George - Military Service Record. 4 Boas, George - Miscellaneous Correspondence. 4 Boas, George - Stockbrokers Records, Robert Garrett & Sons. 4 The Bracelets. 4 Brehier, Emile. 4 Brown University. 4 Burke, Edmund. 4 Burnet, Thomas. 4 Calvin, John. 4 Can We Still Be Free? 4 Carus Lecture Notes. 4 Causation. 5 The Challenge to Science. 5 Cherubs. 5 The Child. 5 The Church. 5 Citizens Committee. 5 The City As a Work of Art. 5 Civil Liberties Award. 5 Civilization and Routine. 5 Clement of Alexandria. 5 Clement (Pseudo-Clement of Rome). 5 Cole, Thomas. 5 Columbus, Christopher. 5 Commencement JHU 1965. 5 Communication in Dewey's Aesthetics. 5 The Cones. 5 Conservatism - Aristotle. 5 Copernicus. 5 Corippus. 5 Cosmas of Prague - Early Bohemians 5 Courbet, Gustave. 5 The Craftsman 5 The Critic as Philosopher. 5 Cross Currents of the Italian Renaissance. 5 La Cuba. 5 Cubism. 5 Cuisine des Anges. 5 Cultural Relativism. 5 Cultural Relativism and Standards. 5 Cupid. 5 Cycles. 5 Cynicism. 5 Daumier, Honore. 5 Defense of our Times. 5 Definition of Pedantry. 5 Dewey, John. 5 Dewey and Modern American Literature. 6 Differentia of Man. 6 Doctorates. 6 Dubos, Rene. 6 Duns Scotus. 6 The Earthly Venus. 6 Easton, Lloys D. 6 Edelstein, Ludwig. 6 Education. 6 Education - General and Special. 6 Educational Superstitions. 6 Eighteenth Century. 6 En Regardant les Images. 6 The Enemies of Education. 6 Engle, Ralph L., Jr. 7 L'Epicier de Troyes. 7 Epistolographers. 7 Equalitarianism. 7 Essential Visual Arts. 7 The Ethics of Plotinus. 7 Euthanasia. 7 The Evasion of Responsibility. 7 Experience. 7 The Fall, Consequences of. 7 Fashions in Criticism. 7 Fashions in Philosophy. 7 Feibleman, James K. 7 Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de la Mothe. 7 Films. 7 Fixation of Symbols. 7 The Flight from Time. 7 Folk Songs. 7 Forkosch, Morris D. 7 Fourth Eclogue. 8 France, 16th Century. 8 Freedom and Authority. 8 Freedom and Indifference. 8 French Philosophy. 8 Genda, Minoru. 8 God, Conception of. 8 Golden Age. 8 Gongora. 8 Goths. 8 Graham, John. 8 Greeks on Art and Artists. 8 Griswold, A.B. 8 Hamlet. 8 Happy Ending. 8 Harvey, Thomas. 8 Harwood, Edward. 8 Hay, William. 8 Haymo of Halberstadt. 8 Heidegger, Martin. 8 Herder, Johann Gottfried von. 8 History. 8 History of Ideas. 8 History of Ideas, Dictionary of. 8 Honorius of Autun. 8 Horror. 8 How to Avoid Thinking. 8 How to Kill a University. 8 Human Nature. 8 The Humanistic Implications of Science. 8 Humanities. 8 The Humanities and the Modern World. 8 The Humanities and the Sciences. 8 Hume, David. 9 Idea. 9 Impressionism. 9 India. 9 Intellectual History: Debit and Credit. 9 Isidore of Seville. 9 Israelites. 9 Ivins, Barbara. 9 Jefferson, Thomas. 9 Jerome. 9 Johns Hopkins University. 9 Johnson, Samuel. 9 Junior Philosophus. 9 Knots. 9 Kristeller, Paul Oskar. 9 Kubie, Lawrence S. 9 Lactantius. 9 Lain Entralgo, Pedro. 9 Language. 9 Lattimore, Owen. 9 Lattimore and Civil Liberties. 9 Lattimore Defense Fund. 10 Legacy of Humanism. 10 Lemaire de Belges, Jean. 10 Leonardo Da Vinci. 10 A Lesson for the Sciences. 10 The Limits of Experimentation. 10 Literary Aesthetics, 1952-53 10 Literary Evaluation. 10 Literature (Miscellaneous Material). 10 Living and Learning. 10 The Living Book. 10 The Lonsome Dodo. 10 Love. 11 Lovejoy, Arthur O. 11 Lovejoy, Arthur O. (Biography by Daniel J. Wilson, Mss.). 11 Loyalty Oaths. 11 Luxury. 11 Mackenzie, Sir George. 11 Macksey, Richard. ( "Cantus Aerum," by Richard Macksey.) 11 Macksey, Richard (partial inventory of Boas Papers). 11 Magi. 11 The Man in the Daguerreotype. 11 Mandelbaum, Maurice. 11 Manet, Edouard. 11 Marcellus Palingenius 11 Martin, R.M. 11 Maslow, Abraham H. 11 Meaning. 11 Measure of Excellence. 12 Micro-Macrocosm. 12 Miscellaneous. 12 Mona Lisa. 12 Monotheism. 12 Montague. 12 Morris, William. 12 The Museum as Arbiter of Taste. 12 Myth. 12 Nature and Art. 12 Nature, State of. 12 A New Voice. 12 Niagara Falls Gazette. 12 Norton, Charles Eliot. 12 Oasis in the Ruins. 12 Oppenheimer, Frank J. 12 L'Ordre Social dans la Cite Moderne. 12 Origen. 12 Orosius. 13 Palamedes. 13 Panofsky, Erwin. 13 Paphnutius. 13 Paradise. 13 The Pastor's Daughter. 13 Peasants. 13 People as Artist. 13 Perception. 13 Perceptual Element in Cognition. 13 The Petrification of Forms. 13 Phaestes Disk. 13 Ph.D-ocracy 13 Philo Judaeus. 13 Philosophies of Science in Florentine Platonism. 13 Philosophy and the Art of Living. 13 Philosophy and Common Sense. 13 Philosophy and Ritual. 13 Philosophy for Americans. 13 Philosophy for the Modern Artist. 13 Philosophy - Modern 13 Philosophy of Design 13 Piles, Roger de. 13 Planning. 13 Plato. 13 Plato - Alcibiades. 13 Plato - Classification of Dialogues. 13 Plato - Documents 13 Plato - Hippias Major 13 Plato - Life of. 13 Plato - Laws. 13 Plato - Phaedrus. 13 Plato - Problems. 13 Plato - Spurious Dialogues. 14 Plotinus. 14 Plural Sovereignty. 14 Pratt Institute. 14 Pre-Columbian Art. 14 Pre-Raphaelites 14 Prediction. 14 Primitivism. 14 Problem of the Humanities. 14 The Problem of Municipal Government. 14 Problems of the Arts. 14 The Professor Dines Out. 14 Protophilosophy. 14 Proudhon, Pierre Joseph. 14 Psychophysical Dualism. 14 Realite de l'Europe. 14 The Rediscovery of America. 14 Reid, Thomas. 14 Renaissance Philosophy. 14 Responsibility. 14 Return to Authority. 14 Reynolds, Sir Joshua. 14 Richards, I.A. 14 Richter, Curt P. 14 Ronsard, Pierre de. 14 Russian Science. 15 St. Quentin - Siege. 15 Salvianus. 15 Sarah's Drawings. 15 Saving France. 15 Scepticism. 15 Science for the Humanist 15 Scythians - Medieval and Modern. 15 The Search for Standards. 15 Secret Doctrines. 15 See Olivet First. 15 Self Education. 15 Self in Romanticism. 15 Seres. 15 A Sermon for Humanists. 15 Shryock, Richard H. 15 Sidonius. 15 Simple Life. 15 Singer, E.A., Jr. 15 Socrates. 15 Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. 15 A Speech for Any Occasion. 15 Standards. 15 Starkey, Thomas. 15 Statistics. 15 Stevenson, Adlai. 16 Still Life. 16 Surrealism. 16 Symbols. 16 A Task for the Humanities. 16 Taste. 16 Teaching the History of Philosophy. 16 Teaching the Humanities. 16 Techniques of Intimidation. 16 Temporal Universe. 16 Theophilus. 16 Thomson, J. 16 Thoreau - Civil Disobedience. 16 Tolman, Richard Chase. 16 Tradition. 16 Unity. 17 Unity - Art. 17 Unity - Ethics. 17 Unity - History. 17 Unity - Introduction. 17 Unity - Ontology and Cosmology. 17 Unity - Political 17 Unity - Psychological. 17 Unity - Religion. 17 Unity - Scientific. 17 Unity - Sociology. 17 Values. 17 Vico, Giambattista. 17 The Villain. 17 Violence. 17 Virginia - Education. 17 Vita Adae et Evae 17 Voices of Silence. 17 Vox Populi Vox Dei. 18 Wagner, Richard. 18 War (speeches, etc.). 18 Wesley, John. 18 What is a Fact? 18 What is a Picture. 18 Wheeler, Harvey. 18 Williams, Roger. 18 Woman. 18 Yates, Frances A. 18 The Youth Replies. 18 Zeno. 18 Zola, Emile. Series 3: Notebooks Series 3: Notebooks

Notebooks of George Boas.

Alphabetically by title, Boxes 19 and 20 (see CONTAINER LIST).

Box Contents 19 Aristotle, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 19 French Philosophy, with mss. notes by Boas. 3 notebooks 19 History of Philosophy, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 19 Impasse II, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 19 Internationalism, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 19 Misc. notes with Latin and Greek texts, with mss. notes by Boas. 3 notebooks 19 Essay - Plato, Spinoza, Kant, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 20 Maupertuis, with mss. notes by Boas 1 notebook 20 Notes III and IV, with mss. notes by Boas. 2 notebooks 20 Preliminary Study of the History of Theories of the Emotions, with mss. notes by Boas. 1 notebook 20 Primitivism I, with mss. notes by Boas 1 notebook 20 Theriophily I and II, with mss. notes by Boas. 3 notebooks Series 4: Reprints of George Boas Series 4: Reprints of George Boas 2 boxes.

Reprints of George Boas.

Alphabetically by title, Boxes 21 and 22 (see CONTAINER LIST).

 Box Contents 21 George Boas, Aesthetics and the Artist. 21 George Boas, Art, Time and Eternity. 21 George Boas, A Basic Conflict in Aristotle's Philosophy. 21 George Boas, The Classification of the Arts and Criticism. 21 George Boas, Communication in Dewey's Aesthetics. 21 George Boas, Defense of the Operational Theory of Meaning. 21 George Boas, An Eightfold Confusion in Aesthetic Evaluations. 21 George Boas, The Esthetic of Leo Stein. 21 George Boas, The Evolution of the Tragic Hero. 21 George Boas, The Greek Tradition in Painting. 21 George Boas, Historical Periods. 21 George Boas, History of Affective Psychology. 21 George Boas, How to Kill a University. 21 George Boas, In Defense of the Unintelligible. 21 George Boas, Joshua Reynolds as Arbiter of Taste. 21 George Boas, The Limits of Education. 22 George Boas, The Measure of Excellence. 22 George Boas, The Meeting of Philosophy and Psychology. 22 George Boas, Parmenides and Authority. 22 George Boas, Philosophy and the Art of Living. 22 George Boas, Philosophy and Ritual. 22 George Boas, Plotinus: Complete Works. 22 George Boas, The Problem of the Humanities. 22 George Boas, The Problem of Meaning in the Arts. 22 George Boas, Prophecy and History. 22 George Boas, The Quest for Certainty, by John Dewey (book review). 22 George Boas, The Rediscovery of America. 22 George Boas, A Soldier at the Sorbonne. 22 George Boas, Some Assumptions of Aristotle. 22 George Boas, La Tentation Manicheenne 22 George Boas, Time and the Human Spirit. 22 George Boas, Tradition. 22 George Boas, Warfare in the Cosmos. Series 5: Reprints of Various Authors Series 5: Reprints of Various Authors 1 box.

Reprints of various authors.

Alphabetically by author, Box 23 (see CONTAINER LIST).

 Box Contents 23 d'Aulnay, Jose - [Poems] 23 Biser, Erwin - Postulates for Physical Time. 23 Brogan, A.P. - Aristotle's Logic of Statements about Contingency. 23 Cherniss, Harold - The Characteristics and Effects of Presocratic Philosophy. 23 Cook, Albert S. - Language and Action in the Drams. 23 Crew, Henry - Biographical Memoir of Joseph Sweetman Ames. 23 Dewey, John - Psychology and Philosophic Method. 23 Dingman, Robert - The Question of Trapping. 23 Ducasse, C.J. - Is Life After Death Possible? 23 During, Ingemar - Notes on the History of the Transmission of Aristotle's Writings. 23 Edelstein, Ludwig - William Osler's Philosophy. 23 Feuer, Lewis S. - Is the "Darwin-Marx Correspondence" Authentic? 23 Feuer, Lewis S. - Teleological Principles in Science. 23 Forkosch, Morris D. - Antitrust in the United States. 23 Gilbert, R. Gordon - Early Concepts of Scientific Law. 23 Glenn, Edmund S. - Some Suggestions for the Epistemological Analysis of Cultures. 23 Hall, A. Rupert - Newton and His Editors. 23 Hall, A. Rupert - Two Centuries of Progress in Science and Technology. 23 Hall, Marie Boas - The Royal Society's Role in the Diffusion of Information in the 17th Century. 23 Jenkins, Iredell - Logical Positivism, Critical Idealism and the Concept of Man. 23 Koenig, X. - Histoire Sainte. 23 Kristeller, Paul Oskar - Between the Italian Renaissance and the French Enlightenment : Gabriel Naude. 23 Magel, Charles R. - A Select Bibliography on Animal Rights and Human Obligations. 23 Mandelbaum, Maurice - Darwin's Religious Views. 23 Mandelbaum, Maurice - Some Neglected Philosophic Problems Regarding History. 23 Mason, Gabriel Richard - God, Pro and Con. 23 Nahm, Milton C. - The Relation of Aesthetics and Criticism. 23 Park, B.A. - A Sequentia Cum Prosa by John of Garland. 23 de Ponte, Sexagenarius - Hanc Pontem. 23 Price, Kingsley - What Makes an Experience Aesthetic? 23 Ramnoux, Clemence - Philosophie de la Philosophie. 23 Sanborn, Herbert - Dingler's Methodical Philosophy. 23 Sanborn, Herbert - Experiment as Creative Act. 23 Santayana, George - The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy. 23 Spitzer, Leo - Les Theories de la Stylistique. 23 Spitzer, Leo - Two Anglo-French Etymologies. 23 Straus, Erwin W. - The Sigh, an Introduction to a Theory of Expression. 23 Taubes, Jacob - Memorandum Concerning a Collection of Texts and Fragments "Origins of the Free Spirit." 23 Taubes, Jacob - On the Nature of the Theological Method. 23 Taubes, Jacob - The Realm of Paradox. 23 Temkin, Owsei - Gall and the Phrenological Movement. 23 Temkin, Owsei - German Concepts of Ontogeny and History around 1800. 23 Temkin, Owsei - Medicine and the Problem of Moral Responsibility. 23 Virtue, Charles F. Sawhill - Creativity and Symbolism. 23 Wilson, David C. - The Neuroses of Everyday Living. 23 Zilboorg, Gregory - Psychoanalysis and Religion. Series 6: Miscellaneous Series 6: Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous catalogues and periodicals.

Box 24.