Charles Norris Cochrane (August 21, 1889 – November 23, 1945) was a Canadian historian and philosopher who taught at the University of Toronto.
[3] During the First World War, Cochrane was active in the Canadian Officers Training Corps and in 1918 went overseas with the 1st Tank Battalion.
Auden,[8][9] and it was in addition described by Harold Innis as "the first major Canadian contribution to the intellectual history of the West".
[12] The title essay in this volume was originally delivered as the 1945 Nathaniel W. Taylor Lectures at Yale University Divinity School.
[16] Political scientist Arthur Kroker, pointing to Cochrane's writings about the conflict between Christianity and nihilism,[17] and his insight into the "generative origins of Christianity as a response to a larger cultural crisis that secular thought, whether Roman or Greek, could not solve for itself," deemed Cochrane "one of the leading 20th-century philosophers of civilization.