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Horace Meyer Kallen
1882–1974
Best known for helping popularize the idea of cultural pluralism in the United States, this immigrant-born philosopher wrote with energy about democracy, education, and the many identities that make up American life.
2 Audiobooks
Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by John Dewey, Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
College prolongs infancy
by Horace Meyer Kallen
About the author
Born in Bernstadt, Prussian Silesia, on August 11, 1882, he came to the United States as a child in 1887. He studied philosophy at Harvard and went on to become an American philosopher, educator, and public intellectual whose work often explored democracy, religion, and national identity.
He taught at Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, and later at the New School for Social Research. He is especially remembered for arguing that the United States could be strengthened by cultural diversity rather than forced cultural sameness, an idea that helped shape later discussions of pluralism and multiculturalism.
Across a long career, he wrote widely on social philosophy and Jewish thought, and he remained active in public debate for decades. He died on February 16, 1974.