Background
Davidson, Hugh MacCullough was born on January 21, 1918 in West Point, Georgia, United States. Son of Robert Calvin Davidson Senior and Anne Della Stripling.
(This 1993 book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and...)
This 1993 book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in three very different areas of his work: mathematics and mathematical physics, religious experience and theology, communication and controversy. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical 'liberal arts', rhetoric, dialectic and geometry, pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth. They appear throughout his production and are used and adapted with great skill both in his attacks on tradition in mathematics and physics and in his defences of tradition in the sphere of religion and morality. Professor Davidson throws light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.
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(This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and sol...)
This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical "liberal arts"-- rhetoric, dialectic and geometry--pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth, both in his attacks on and in his defenses of tradition. Professor Davidson throws new light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.
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French language and literature educator
Davidson, Hugh MacCullough was born on January 21, 1918 in West Point, Georgia, United States. Son of Robert Calvin Davidson Senior and Anne Della Stripling.
Bachelor of Arts in Romance Languages, University Chicago, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy in Romance Languages, University Chicago, 1946. Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1967.
Instructor French University Chicago, 1946-1948, assistant professor French, 1948-1953, assistant dean college, 1951-1953. Assistant professor romance languages Dartmouth College, 1953-1956, professor romance languages, 1956-1962, chairman department romance languages, 1957-1959. Professor romance languages Ohio State University, 1962-1967, 68-73.
Professor French literature University Virginia, 1973-1978, commonwealth professor French literature, 1978, 1978-1990, commonwealth professor French literature emeritus, since 1990. Visiting professor French University Michigan, 1967. University examiner French and general linguistics, humanities University Chicago, 1946-1948.
Chairman College French staff University Chicago, 1948-1953. Thomas Jefferson fellow Downing College, Cambridge University, England, 1979-1980. Visiting professor University Paris Sorbonne, 1982-1983.
Visiting committee humanities and arts Case We. Reserve University, 1967. Consultant division education programs National Endowment of the Humanities, 1977.
Conducts seminars in field. Captain United States Air Force, 1942-1946.
(This 1993 book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and...)
(This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and sol...)
Member Modern Language Association (editorial committee publications 1968-1973), American Association Teachers French, American Society Eighteenth-Century Studies, N. American Society Seventeenth-Century French Literature, Association international des études françaises, Society International d'étude du XVIIe siècle, Society international d'étude du XVIIIe siècle, Society des amis de Institute Literature Française University Paris Sorbonne, Society des amis de Port-Royal, Phi Beta Kappa (national Senate 1982-1988).
Married Loretta Jane Miller, June 15, 1951. 1 child, Anne Stripling Davidson.