This volume brings the life of the American philosopher, Nicholas Rescher, into the new millennium. The last in a quartet of autobiographical works, this instalment charts - in a single volume - the many twists and turns of Rescher's life and career. It takes the reader through Rescher's childhood in Weimar and then Nazi Germany; life as a first-generation American during the Depression; as a high-school student during World War II and a graduate student at Princeton; as a serviceman during the Korean War; and work as a Cold War warrior with the RAND Corporation during the Vietnam War. The autobiography traces the evolution of Rescher's career as a professional philosopher and his contribution of over 70 books and more than 200 articles, many written in the construction of his signature system of pragmatic idealism.

Author Biography

Nicholas Rescher is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. An amazingly prolific contemporary American philosopher, Rescher has authored over fifty books in the process of constructing a system of pragmatic idealism. He encapsulates his synoptic system in the trilogy A System of Pragmatic Idealism (1992-94).