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Dagobert David Runes (January 6, 1902 – September 24, 1982) was a philosopher and author.

Biography

Born in Zastavna, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary (now in Ukraine), Runes emigrated to the United States in 1928. He had received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna in 1924. In the U.S. he became editor of The Modern Thinker (1929-1936), The Modern Psychologist (1932-1938), and Current Digest (1933-1940). From 1931 to 1934 he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Education in New York City. He had an encyclopedic level fluency in Latin and Biblical Hebrew; he fluently spoke and wrote in Austrian German, German, Yiddish, French, Hebrew, Russian, Polish, Czechoslovakian, and English. In 1941 he founded the Philosophical Library, a spiritual organization and publishing house. He wrote and edited numerous books on the subjects of philosophy, politics, education, Judaism and his own poetry. In New York, Runes socialized with many public figures and especially those driven into exile by Hitler. Alfred Adler, Albert Einstein and Emil Ludwig were among his illustrious acquaintances.

He has written and edited numerous books on philosophy, politics, education, Judaism and his own poems.

Selected works

• Der wahre Jesus oder das fünfte Evangelium R. Cerny, 1927.
• Dictionary of Philosophy (editor) Philosophical Library, 1942.
• The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush (editor) Philosophical Library, 1947.
• Jordan Lieder: Frühe Gedichte (in German) The Philosophical Library, 1948.
• Letters to My Son The Philosophical Library, 1949.
• The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization The Philosophical Library, 1951.
• Spinoza Dictionary The Philosophical Library, 1951.
• Of God, the Devil and the Jews The Philosophical Library, 1952.
• The Soviet Impact on Society: A Recollection, 1953.
• Letters to My Daughter The Philosophical Library, 1954.
• Treasury of Philosophy (editor) The Philosophical Library, 1955.
• Treasury of World Literature (editor) The Philosophical Library, 1956.
• On the Nature of Man The Philosophical Library, 1956.
• Sartre, J.P., Being and Nothingness Translated by Hazel E. Barnes, The Philosophical Library, 1956.
• Pictorial History of Philosophy (editor) The Philosophical Library, 1959.
• A Dictionary of Thought (editor) Philosophical Library, 1959.
• A World without Jews (translator) The Philosophical Library, 1959.
• The Art of Thinking The Philosophical Library, 1961.
• A Treasury of World Science (editor) The Philosophical Library, 1962.
• Despotism: A Pictorial History of Tyranny (author) The Philosophical Library, 1963 Library of Congress Card catalog #62-22269
• The Disinterested and the Law The Philosophical Library, 1964.
• Philosophy for Everyman: From Socrates to Sartre, Philosophical Library, Library of Congress Card #68-22351, ©1968.

References

1. Bach, Ulrich E. (2010-07-16), Spalek, John M.; Feilchenfeldt, Konrad; Hawrylchak, Sandra H. (eds.), "DAGOBERT D. RUNES: EIN STREITBARER VERLEGER IN NEW YORK", Deutschsprachige Exilliteratur seit 1933. Band 3: USA Supplement 1 (in German), DE GRUYTER SAUR, pp. 278–294, doi:10.1515/9783110240573.1.278, ISBN 978-3-11-024056-6, retrieved 2023-06-03
2. Edelman, Hendrik (2007). "Other immigrant publishers of note in America". In Abel, Richard; Graham, Gordon (eds.). Immigrant Publishers : The impact of expatriate publishers in Britain and America in the 20th century. London and New York: Routledge. Also in Edelman, Hendrik (2007). "The immigrants: Other immigrant publishers of note — in America: A coda of portraits". Logos. 18 (4): 194–199. doi:10.2959/logo.2007.18.4.194. ISSN 0957-9656.
3. "Dr. Dagobert Runes, Founder Of the Philosophical Library". New York Times. 27 September 1982. p. D-9. Retrieved 15 December 2011.
4. ^ Bach 2010, p. 278.

Sources

• Pictorial History of Philosophy by Dagobert D. Runes, 1959.
• Karl Marx: Selected essays.” 1926

External links

• Works by or about Dagobert D. Runes at the Internet Archive
• Dictionary of Philosophy
• Correspondence with Einstein

• 1902 births
• 1982 deaths
• People from Chernivtsi Oblast
• 20th-century American philosophers
• Yiddish-speaking people
• Jewish American writers
• Jewish socialists
• Ukrainian Jews
• American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent