In the history of thought, Harold F. Cherniss is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Harold F. Cherniss as American classical scholar (1904-1987).
Harold F. Cherniss was born at St. Joseph in 1904. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at University of California, Berkeley and University of Chicago.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University.
The recorded fields of work are classical philology.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Harold F. Cherniss died in 1987, aged 83. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Institute for Advanced Study, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University
- Fields: classical philology
