The majority of his works are in English, but translations of some of them have appeared in Russian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Serbo-Croatian, Korean and Japanese.
He attended Boston University for three years (1938–41), but his education was interrupted by service in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WW II, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
The entire field of Russian philosophy as an object of study in America has been shaped to a remarkable degree by the efforts of Kline himself over the course of a long career, beginning with his first publications in 1949: "Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor and the Soviet Regime," Occidental (NY), no.
The textual precision, historical learning, and depth of insight found in Kline's own numerous studies of Russian and Soviet philosophy over several decades have served as a model of serious scholarship on these topics for many other researchers.
The appearance of these three volumes in the 1960s made it feasible for the first time for instructors in the U.S. and U.K. to teach university courses based upon a representative sampling of the entire history of Russian philosophy, with excellent translations and scholarly introductions for each general section and each philosopher.
Kline was one of the first Western scholars to direct special attention to the episode of "Nietzschean Marxism" found especially in the works of Volsky and Lunacharsky, as well as Bogdanov and Bazarov during the period 1903–12.
Lawrence C. Becker (New York: Garland; London: St. James Press, 1992), and "The Soviet Recourse to the Death Penalty for Crimes Against Socialist Property (1961-1986)," Sofia Philosophical Review, vol.
There he denies that Marx ever promoted a materialist ontology in the normal philosophical sense, whereas most of his followers from Engels through Plekhanov and Lenin, plus all the Marxist-Leninists, have claimed that he did so.
Ernest Joos (Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1987), and "Class Consciousness and the World-Historical Future" in Georg Lukács: Theory, Culture and Politics, ed.
In recognition of the long personal and professional bond between them, Brodsky invited Kline to attend the ceremony in Stockholm in 1987 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
Editor: Soviet Education (foreword by George S. Counts), London: Routledge and Keagan Paul; New York: Columbia University Press, 1957.
Editor and contributor of a chapter and a translation from the Spanish: European Philosophy Today (preface by Max H. Fisch), Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965.
Distinguished Flying Cross (1944) Phi Beta Kappa, New York Delta (1947) Deutscher Verein Prize, Columbia College (1947) Weil Lecturer (six lectures), The Frank L. Weil Institute for Studies in Religion and the Humanities, Cincinnati (1964) Guggenheim Fellowship, Paris (1978-1979) Stork Lecturer, The Philadelphia Athenaeum (1988) Distinguished Career Award, Needham High School (MA) (1995) Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies [now: the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies] (1999) Honorary Member, Zenkovsky Society of Historians of Russian Philosophy, Moscow (2002-) Russkaia filosofiia Entsiklopediia edited by Mark Andrew Maslin Published : 2007 ISBN 592650466X ISBN 978-5926504665 "Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor and the Soviet Regime," Occidental (New York), No.
"Recent Uncensored Soviet Philosophical Writings" [on works of Volpin, Chalidze, and Pomerants] in Dissent in the USSR: Politics, Ideology, and People (ed.
"Reuniting the Eastern and Western Churches: Vladimir Soloviev's Ecumenical Project (1881-1896) and its Contemporary Critics," Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the U.S.A. (Zapiski russkoi akademicheskoi gruppy v SSHA), Vol.
"Pojednanie Kościoła wschodniego i zachodniego: Plan ekumeniczny Władimira Sołowjowa (1881-1896) i współcześni mu krytycy," Przegląd powszechny [Warsaw], Vol.
"Changing Russian Assessments of Spinoza and their German Sources (1796-1862)" in Philosophical Imagination and Cultural Memory: Appropriating Historical Traditions (ed.
31 (1995), 77-90 (Spanish translation, by María del Carmen Dolby Múgica and Luz-Marina Pérez Horna, with the assistance of Leopoldo Montoya, of a revised and expanded version of No.
"Gustav Shpet as Interpreter of Hegel" in Archiwum Historii Filozofii i Myśli Społecznej (Warsaw) (special issue dedicated to Andrzej Walicki, ed.
L. Kolakowski and K. Pomian], Warsaw: PWN, 1965: 212–44); Alexander Bogdanov, "Two Poems by Boris Pasternak" in the Columbia University Forum Anthology (ed.
"New Poems by Joseph Brodsky [Elegy for John Donne, A Christmas Ballad, "That evening sprawling by an open fire," Solitude and Sadly and Tenderly] (with introductory note), TriQuarterly 3 (Spring 1965), 85–96.
Joseph Brodsky: Six New Poems [To Lycomedes on Scyros, Washerwoman Bridge, Sonnet: How Sad that my Life has not Come to Mean, Verses on The Death T. S. Eliot, The Fountain, A Stopping Place in the Wilderness, (with introductory essay), Unicorn Journal, No.
9 (1970),Page Five Poems by Joseph Brodsky [Almost an Elegy, Enigna for an Angel, Stanzas: ("Let our farewell be silent"), "You'll flutter, robin redbreast," The Candlestick], TriQuarterly 18 (Spring 1970): 175–83.
Three Poems by Joseph Brodsky, [Verses in April, September First, Sonnet ("Once more we're living as by Naples Bay")], Arroy (Bryn Mawr Literary Review), May, 1971: 2–4.
Eliot, The Fountain, Post Aetatem Nostram, Nature Morte] (Russian texts on facing pages) in The Living Mirror: Five Young Poets form Leningrad (ed.
", "In villages God does not live only," Spring Season of Muddy Roads, "Exhaustion now is a more frequent guest," Evening, "Refusing to catalogue all of one's woes," Einem alten Architekten in Rom] (with introductory note), Antaeus, No.
Three Poems by Joseph Brodsky [From The School Anthology: Albert Frolov: Odysseus to Telemachus: and From Gorbunov and Gorchakov, Canto II] (with introductory essay), New York Review of Books, Vol.
Valery A. Kuvakin), Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1994; 1:113-128 (an abridged and slightly revised version of the translation included in Russian Philosophy, vol.
Constantine Leontyev, "The Average European as an Ideal and Instrument of Universal Destruction" (with William Shafer) in ibid., 2:455-462 (an abridged and extensively revised version of the translation included in Russian Philosophy, vol.
), Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1965; revised paperback edition, 1969, reprinted, University of Tennessee Press, 1976, 1984: Gregory Skovoroda, "Socrates in Russia," A Conversation among Five Travelers Concerning Life's True Happiness," and "The Life of Gregory Skovoroda by M. I. Kovalinsky," 1:17-57; Alexander Radishchev, "On Man, his Mortality and Immortality"(with Frank Y. Gladney), 1:77-100; Constantine Leontyev, "The Average European as an Ideal and Instrument of Universal Destruction" (with William Shafer), 2:271-80; Nicholas Fyodorov, "The Question of Brotherhood..." (with Ashleigh E. Moorhouse), 3:16-54; "Matter as Thing-in Itself," 3:393-04; Lyubov Akselrod (Ortodoks), "Review of Lenin's Materialism and Empiriocriticism" (with John Liesveld Jr.), 3:457-63.