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(August 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Irving Singer Born (1925-12-24)December 24, 1925 Brooklyn, New York, USA Died February 1, 2015(2015-02-01) (aged 89) Nationality United States Notable work (see published works below) Awards (see awards below) Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Humanist[citation needed] Institutions Harvard, MIT Main interests Aesthetics, philosophy of love, philosophy of film[citation needed] Influences George Santayana, Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman[citation needed] Influenced Alan Soble, Felipe Guardiola Medina[citation needed] Website www.mit.edu/~philos/singer.html Irving Singer (December 24, 1925 – February 1, 2015) was an American professor of philosophy who was on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 55 years and wrote over 20 books.[1] He was the author of books on various topics, including cinema, love, sexuality, and the philosophy of George Santayana. He also wrote on the subject of film, including writings about the work of film directors Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock. Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Published works 3.1 By Singer 3.2 About Singer 4 References 5 External links Biography[edit] This section needs expansion with: entire career after graduation. You can help by adding to it. (February 2015) Singer was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 24, 1925;[2] his parents were Isadore and Nettie Stromer Singer, Jewish immigrants from Austria-Hungary, who owned a grocery store in Coney Island.[2][3] Singer skipped three grades in school, graduating from Manhattan's Townsend Harris High School at age 15.[2][3] He entered the U.S. Army, serving in World War II, writing History of the 210th Field Artillery Group, which was published by the Army in 1945.[2][3] After studying for a short time at Brooklyn College before the war and attending Biarritz American University in Paris just after the war, Singer went to Harvard University on the G.I. Bill,[2][3] was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude with an A.B. in 1948.[3] He did his graduate studies at Oxford University and Harvard, receiving his PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 1952.[3] Singer taught briefly at Harvard, Cornell University, the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins University. He joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, first as a lecturer, but then promoted to associate professor in 1959, and full professor at 1967.[1] He died in 2015.[2] Awards[edit] This section may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure. (February 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Four prize essays and other student awards,[specify] Harvard University[4] ACLS Research Scholar, 1949–1950[4] Post-doctoral Fulbright Research Scholar, 1955–1956[4] Bollingen Grant-in-aid, 1958, 1959, 1965[4] The Hudson Review Fellow in Criticism, 1958–1959[4] Guggenheim Fellowship, 1965–1966[4] ACLS Grant-in-aid, 1966[4] Fellow of the Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, 1965–1967[4] Bollingen Fellowship, 1966–1967[4] Rockefeller Foundation Grant, 1970[4] Balliol College/MIT Exchange, Oxford University, 1999[4] Fellow, European Humanities Research Centre, Oxford University, 1999–2004[4] Published works[edit] By Singer[edit] This section does not cite any sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (February 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Santayana's Aesthetics: A Critical Analysis (1957) ISBN 9780837166964 The Goals of Human Sexuality (1973) ISBN 9780393010718 Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas (1977) ISBN 9780262513647 The Nature of Love Volume 1: Plato to Luther (1984) ISBN 978-0262512725 The Nature of Love Volume 2: Courtly and Romantic (1984) ISBN 9780262512732 The Nature of Love Volume 3: The Modern World (1987) ISBN 978-0262512749 Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value (1992, 1996) ISBN 9780262266482 Meaning in Life Volume 2: The Pursuit of Love (1994) ISBN 9780801852404 Meaning in Life Volume 3: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit (1996) ISBN 9780801860515 Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique (1998) ISBN 978-0262692489 George Santayana, Literary Philosopher (2000) ISBN 9780300128536 Feeling and Imagination: The Vibrant Flux of Our Existence (2001) Explorations in Love and Sex (2001) ISBN 9780742512382 ISBN 978-0742512382 Sex: A Philosophical Primer (2001, expanded edition: 2004) ISBN 978-0742512368 Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (2004) ISBN 978-0262693288 Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on his Creativity (2007) ISBN 978-0262513234 Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film (2008) ISBN 978-0262515153 Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up (2009) ISBN 978-0262516174 Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives (2011) ISBN 978-0262518758 About Singer[edit] The Nature and Pursuit of Love: The Philosophy of Irving Singer (Prometheus Books, 1995) — based on academic papers presented at a three-day conference about Singer at Brock University in 1991 ISBN 978-0879759124 [1] References[edit] ^ a b c "Irving Singer, MIT philosopher and author, retires after 55 years" (Press release). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-17. ^ a b c d e f Roberts, Sam (February 15, 2015). "Irving Singer, M.I.T. Professor Who Wrote 'The Nature of Love,' Dies at 89". NYTimes.com. New York City: The New York Times Company. Retrieved 2015-02-17. ^ a b c d e f "Irving Singer, professor emeritus of philosophy, dies at 89". MIT News. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. February 8, 2015. Archived from the original on 9 February 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Singer, Irving (August 1, 2008). "Curriculum vitae" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-02-17. External links[edit] MIT philosophy: faculty: Irving Singer — main faculty biography Irving Singer: List of Publications on the M.I.T. Faculty Bibliographies site Curriculum vitae on the MIT website The Irving Singer Library at MIT Press Reviews Reviews by Singer and replies by Singer in the New York Review of Books Review of Singer, Three Philosophical Filmmakers, by Daniel Ross Review of Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher and Cinematic Mythmaking, by Daniel Ross Review of Singer, Reality Transformed, by Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith Video Philosophy of Love in the Western World - Session 1 on YouTube — Irving Singer course lecture, derived from the MIT OpenCourseWare project Archives at Location Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts Dates approximately 1950s to 2000s Access This collection is open Source Irving Singer papers How to use archival material v t e Aesthetics topics Philosophers Abhinavagupta Theodor W. Adorno Leon Battista Alberti Thomas Aquinas Hans Urs von Balthasar Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten Clive Bell Bernard Bosanquet Edward Bullough R. G. Collingwood Ananda Coomaraswamy Arthur Danto John Dewey Denis Diderot Hubert Dreyfus Curt John Ducasse Thierry de Duve Roger Fry Nelson Goodman Clement Greenberg Georg Hegel Martin Heidegger David Hume Immanuel Kant Paul Klee Susanne Langer Theodor Lipps György Lukács Jean-François Lyotard Joseph Margolis Jacques Maritain Thomas Munro Friedrich Nietzsche José Ortega y Gasset Dewitt H. Parker Stephen Pepper David Prall Jacques Rancière Ayn Rand Louis Lavelle George Lansing Raymond I. A. Richards George Santayana Friedrich Schiller Arthur Schopenhauer Roger Scruton Irving Singer Rabindranath Tagore Giorgio Vasari Morris Weitz Johann Joachim Winckelmann Richard Wollheim more... Theories Classicism Evolutionary aesthetics Historicism Modernism New Classical Postmodernism Psychoanalytic theory Romanticism Symbolism more... 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