Philip Wheelwright

Philip Ellis Wheelwright (July 6, 1901 – January 6, 1970) [1] was an American philosopher, classical scholar and literary theorist.

in 1921 and a Ph.D. in 1924 with his dissertation "The Concepts of Liberty and Contingency in the Philosophy of Charles Renouvier," the French Kantian philosopher who so influenced William James.

Wheelwright taught at New York University from 1927 to 1935, while from 1930 to 1933 editing the journal Symposium, an avant-garde review of literary criticism.

After two years devoted to his own writing, in 1937 he returned to teaching as professor of philosophy at Dartmouth College, on whose faculty he remained until 1953.

But Professor Wheelwright is best-known for works in the field of literary criticism, The Burning Fountain: a Study in the Language of Symbolism (1954) and Metaphor and Reality (1962).