Albert William Levi

ALBERT WILLIAM LEVI was appointed as a regular member of the department in 1952. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1939 with  a dissertation titled A Study in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, directed by Charner Perry.  In 1965 he was made David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities.  Professor Levi did important work in the History of Ideas, the History of Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Culture.  He was a member of the National Council of the Humanities from 1966-1972.  In 1960, he was the first recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa award in History, Philosophy, and Religion for Philosophy and the Modern World.  Among many other honors and awards, Professor Levi was three times a Fulbright scholar and was awarded a Silver Medal "Pro Meritus" from the University of Graz, Austria.  Professor Levi is author of The Varieties of Experience, Philosophy and the Modern World, Literature, Philosophy, and the Imagination, Humanism and Politics, The Humanities Today, and Philosophy as Social Expression.  Professor Levi retired as David May Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities in 1979.  In his honor, the Albert William Levi Seminar Room was dedicated.  The Highroad of Humanity: The Seven Ages of Western Man, was completed just prior to his death in 1988, and was published in 1995.