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Summary Information
Max Otto Papers 1899-1963
- Otto, Max Carl, 1876-1968
Mss 101
5.6 c.f. (14 archives boxes)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Max Otto, a prominent German American philosopher, teacher at the University of Wisconsin, and controversial figure because of his atheism, pacifism, and defense of academic freedom. Included is correspondence, articles, notes, speeches, lectures, book manuscripts, drawings and cartoons, diaries, an autobiography, newsclippings on criticism of Otto by John B. Chapple in 1932, and other items. The extensive correspondence (1900-1964) provides insight into Otto's long-term intellectual relationship with Boyd S. Bode, John Dewey, and Dickinson S. Miller and into the development of American philosophy during the first half of the twentieth century. Other correspondents include Morton Enslin, Horace Fries, A. Eustace Haydon, Elijah A. Jordan, Horace M. Kallen, Edward C. Lindeman, Alain Locke, Donald Piatt, Harold Taylor, Marten Ten Hoor, Lewis G. Westgate, George C. Sellery, Albert C. Barnes, E. A. Birge, Baker Brownell, Clarence Darrow, Glenn Frank, Nathan Feinsinger, William Leiserson, Alexander Meiklejohn, and Frederick Merk. English
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