George Boas
George Boas · Philosophy & Social Sciences
American philosopher and historian of ideas
1891, Providence, Rhode Island, United States — 1980, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
United States
George Boas is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — American philosopher and historian of ideas
Boas was an American philosopher and historian of ideas, a longtime professor at Johns Hopkins University who worked closely with Arthur O. Lovejoy and edited the Journal of the History of Ideas, writing on primitivism, aesthetics and intellectual history. He helped shape the history-of-ideas as a discipline. He is documented as Jewish in the Encyclopaedia Judaica.
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American philosopher and historian of ideas
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Philosophy
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