William A. Earle
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| Born | 1919 Saginaw, Michigan |
| Died | October 16, 1988 Evanston, Illinois |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Existentialism, Phenomenology |
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Contemporary continental philosophy, History of ideas, Rationalism, Irrationalism, Cultural criticism, Surrealism |
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Notable ideas
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Singularity of each human existence, intuitive basis of knowledge |
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William A. Earle (1919 – October 16, 1988) was a twentieth-century American philosopher.
Earle was an important figure within the movements of existentialism and phenomenology. He had particular expertise in the thought of Karl Jaspers and Georg W. F. Hegel and was an authority on surrealism. His interests included cultural criticism, the history of ideas, aesthetics, film, filmmaking, and mysticism. Students and colleagues regarded him as a strikingly independent, richly provocative educator and thinker.
Earle was born in Saginaw, Michigan. After service in World War II, he studied at the University of Aix-Marseilles under Gaston Berger and at the University of Chicago under Charles Hartshorne and received PhDs from both institutions.
From 1948 to 1982 he taught philosophy at Northwestern University, with visiting lectureships at Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. In 1962 Earle, along with John Daniel Wild, James M. Edie, and others, founded the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy.
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