Education
University of Chicago, PhB 1923. PhD 1926; Harvard University, Manuscripts and Archives 1925.
University of Chicago, PhB 1923. PhD 1926; Harvard University, Manuscripts and Archives 1925.
1927-1961, Instructor to Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. 1961-1963, Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy. Northwestern University.
1963-1972, Professor of Philosophy. Yale University.
Main publications:
(1946) Plato's Theory of Man: An Introduction to the Realist Philosophy of Culture, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
(1948) Introduction to Realistic Philosophy, New York: Harper
reprinted, Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1984.
(1955) The Challenge of Existentialism, Bloomington: Indiana University Press
reprinted, Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1979.
(1959) Human Freedom and Social Order: An Essay in Christian Philosophy, Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
(1963) Existence and the World of Freedom, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Secondary literature:
Rome, S. and B. (eds) (1964) Philosophical Interrogations, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, pp. 119-78.
Wild began his career as a philosophical scholar whose mind was early seared by the religious and moral concerns of Kierkegaard. His first systematic response was to advocate a return to reason by the restoration of the philosophical realism of Plato and Aristotle. The Challenge of Existentialism (1955) marks the beginning of his second response in published form, promoting the acceptance of phenomenological and existentialist thought in the English-speaking world.
Sources: Who’s Who in America. New York Times. 25 Oct 1972.