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Jesse Glenn Gray (1913-1977) was well-known for his English translations of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger. He worked with Heidegger as a general editor for Harper & Row.
Gray published numerous books and essays. His first major publication, The Warriors: Reflections of Men in Battle, is a memoir of his years as an infantryman in Italy during World War II as a trained philosoper, and was inspired by Gray’s opposition to war. It includes an introduction by Hanna Arendt.
As a professor at Colorado College, Gray received various fellowships from organizations such as the Ford Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Council on the Arts and Humanities. He also was a scholar-in-residence for the Aspen Center for Humanistic Studies from 1967 to 1968. Before his scheduled retirement, scholars at Colorado College and throughout the United State compiled a collection of essays, entitled Something of Great Constancy, in honor of Gray. Gray died before the collection was published
Gray was born May 27, 1913, near Mifflintown, Pennsylvania. He married Ursula Werner in 1947 and the couple had two daughters.
Gray graduated from Juniata College with an A.B., magna cum laude, in 1936. He received his M.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1938 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1941. Immediately after finishing his education, Gray spent four years in the United States Army and became a second lieutenant during World War II. When Gray returned to the United States he began his career as a professor and writer of philosophical ideas.
Glenn Gray died October 30, 1977, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Books
Hegel’s Hellenic Ideal. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1941.
The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle. New York: Harcourt, 1959.
The Promise of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy of Education. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1968.
Understanding Violence Philosophically and Other Essays. New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Books (Editor)
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. On Art, Religion, Philosophy: Introductory Lectures to the Realm of Absolute Spirit. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Translations
Heidegger, Martin. What is Called Thinking? New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Contributions to Books
McGrath, Earl. The Humanities in Higher Education. Dubuque: W.C. Brown, 1949. Kline, George L. European Philosophy Today. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965. Anton, John. Naturalism and Historical Understanding. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1967. Somer, John, James Wilcox, and James Coulos. Literature and Rhetoric: an Anthology for Composition. Atlanta: Scott, Foresman, 1969.
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