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Herbert Spiegelberg: The ironic self

✍ Scribed by William S. Hamrick

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1992
Tongue
English
Weight
441 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0163-8548

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✦ Synopsis

There were really two Herbert Spiegelbergs. The first was the insatiable scholar who, as his correspondence reveals, 2 pestered people on two continents to track down references and to work out the meaning of one of Wittgenstein's epigraphs. This Herbert Spiegelberg was the one who once, in a local phenomenology discussion group, cheerfully admitted his relief at the demise of the philosophers on whom he did research so that "a hound like myself" could not be interfered with. This indefatiguable seeker after information for The Phenomenological Movement was the one who was known publically and even privately to many friends and colleagues.

But there was another Herbert Spiegelberg hidden behind the historian's persona, and even out of sight of his own published philosophy. This self, vital and even exciting, partly reveals itself in his diaries which he kept as "an attempt to salvage elusive bits of ideas pertinent to my central enterprise, i.e., the self-existential meditations, as a temporary deposit. ''3 The diary entries were intended as the successor to "the 'nux sapiendi' on leaving Europe from Southampton in 1938, ''4 and were begun while the author was involved in writing The Phenomenological Movement. He wanted to use the diaries "to take stock by making sure of the most essential fmdings of my 'philosophizing' in a concise if preliminary fixation, not feeling sure that I would still be able to return to them after completing my historical introduction work, which was unessential to me, but possibly more needed in America and the only way for me on the shelf in Wisconsin to obtain a hearing for what really matters to me" (3/19/72). 5

The diaries thus served as a sort of running academic balance sheet, a place to record his own ideas until they could be developed properly, but

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