Richard Peter McKeon Papers, U of C special collections – for research

This is not a finding aid. This is a partial list for personal use.

See: Biographical note, beginning
- related resources, p. 8
- Writings (originals), p. 41
- note on lecture notes, p. 64
- note on UNESCO materials, p. 80
- add more, by name; by year, by organization [e.g. CST]

Box: Folder

3:5-6, critical writings about McKeon, 1966-76
14:5, 15, 16, book collection

Correspondence
17:6-8 Adler
17:10 American Academy of Arts and Sciences
18:1 Amer Assoc for UN
18:3-6 ACLS
18:7-8 APA
19:1 Dewey
19:2-6 I&M
2:4 Braised & UNESCO
21:9 Burke
23:1 Ctr Study Democ Insts
23:2 Ctr Study Thought & Life in US
23:8 Classics of Western Democ
23:11-13 The College 1960s
24:2 Columbia
24:4-12, 25:1-7, 26:1-2 Ctee Study of Mankind
26:3-6 CFWC
26:7 Communications and Public opinion, Ctee on
26:8-9, 27:1-3 Community renewal society
27:5 Conf on Methods 1943
28:16-18, 29:1-6 Dict of Fundamental Terms
29:7 Dict History Ideas
30:1-10, 31:1-5 Diogenes
31:6-7, 32:1-3 Diss Abstracts
32:17 Education
33:5-9 EB
33:10, 33:11 Encyc Philosophy
33:12 Encyc Social Sciences
34:4 Faust
36:12 FH
36:11 Gilson
37:3 Great Books
37:4 Grene
38:8 Hodgson/Diogenes
38:15-17 Humanities/HumDiv
39:1-6 RMH
39:8-10, 40:1-12, 41:1-10 Intl Inst Philosophy, Intl Inst Political Philosophy
42:1-7 “Fdns and Limits of Tolerance”
42:12 Inst Philosophy
43:14 Jaeger
44:2-6 J History Ideas
44:7 J History Philosophy
45:4 Kimpton
45:9 Knight
46:4 Levi
46:12 Logic 1945-47
47:7-9 “Mankind” draft
49:2 mental health
49:8 G.E.Moore
50:9 OII Ctee
51.4 Perelman
51:11-12, 52:1-4 Dept Philosophy
52:7 philosophy in lib education 1941
52:8 philosophy of arist 1941
52:10 Plochmann
54:3-5 radio
54:8-9 Random House re Aristotle
54:11 Redfield
55:4 Intl Review Philosophy
55:8 Rockefeller Fdn
56:4-7 St. John’s
57:2 Science And Hum, 1947
57:5 “Textbook Arts, rhetoric, history”
58:4 Smigelskis
58:7-8 CST
59:2 Strau$$
60:4-5 UN Assoc USA
60:6-7, 61:1-2 UNESCO
61:3 US on UNESCO
61:6-9, 62:1-9, 63:1-2 U of C
68:6 Ward
68:7 Wegener
68:15-17, 69:1 World Federalists
69:11 misc

Subject Files
70:1-3 Adler
70:9 I&M
70:14-19, 71:1-6, Aristotle
71:12 Aug, Rhetoric
71:13 Bacon
72:7 Scott Buchanan
72:9-10 K. Burke
72:15 Causes
72:23 Classics and lib arts
72:24 Classification system n.d.
73:4 commonplaces 1976
73:5 communication 1956
73:8 concepts 1971
73:9 Concretenes, discovery, 196-66
73:10 constitution
73:12 council study mankind
73:13-16 criticism
73:19-20 culture
73:22-23 democ
74:2 descartes
74:4 Dewey
74:5 dialogue
74:16 Ruml on education
75:13 education
75:7-10 Encyc’s
75:16-17 Ethics
76:1-5 exams
76:8 experience and metaphysics
76:12-17 Freedom
76:23 Gilson
77:5-7 happiness
77:14-15, 78:1-4 Humanities
78:8 Imitation
78:13, 79:1-11, 80:1-7 on Freedom
80:10 Inventions
81:6 Kant 1942
81:10-82:2 Law
82:3-4 Lectures 1928-77
82:9-13 Logic
83:2, 83:3-6 Math
83:10 arts of memory
83:15 modalities
83:17 morals and prudence
84:4 Misc. 1939-46
84:9-10 OII
84:15 Perelman
84:17 Dept Philosophy
84:18-22, 85:1-9 Philosophy
86:10-11 Probability 1933
86:12 progress
86:15 Proportions
87:2 Quint.
87:6 relig in gen education
87:10-12 Rhetoric
87: 13 I.A. Richards
87:14-16 Rights
87:18 B. Russell
88:3-4 Semantics, Inquiry
88:11 CST
89:3 David Swenson
89:4 Technology
89:6 theme
89:8 Theory and practice
89:10 topics
89:11-15 UNESCO and UN
89:16-17 U of C
89:19 Vico

90:2 Whitehead
90:10 Woodbridge

Book Files/Articles that may be hard to get, MSS
112:1-4, Basic works of Arist, FH, Freedom to Read
113:4 on UNESCO’s purpose 1949
113:11-12 Philosophy and Action (English)
114:3 Autobiog. Mental state
116:9 Battle of Books MS
116:10 Methodology MS and lecture notes
116:12 Conf proceedings transcript
116:13 discourse, demonstration, verification, justification MS and correspondence
116:16 on Dewey, MS and Corr
117:1 CAD MS
117:6 HUMAN RIGHTS MS & corr
117:7 “Philosophy of Communication and the Arts” 1970 MS&C
117:10 Technological Age 1971, MS
119:9 Cgo School MS
119:11 Pluralisms MSS
119:12 PSPI

UNPUBLISHED
120:14 BA papers
120:15-16 MA paper
121:1-4 Columbia course notes
121:5 “Little Flowers”
121:6-10 “Philosophy of Arist”1940
121:13 “Techniques of Analysis and composition” 1941
All in Boxes 122-127
122:2-3 “Problem of the Universal” 1947
122:6 Taxonomy for Freedom
122:11-14 Encyclopedias YES
122:15 World Order 1963
123:1 Humane studies
123:4 methods of Rhetoric and Philosophy
123:5 with KB, for audience, on Rhetoric and Poetic
123:14 Influence of Rhetoric
124-125, Method of Philosophy and Action book
125:2-3, Semantics of FH
125:10-11 on Aristotle, Prior Analytics and Categories
126:1 UNESCO
126:5-6 Fiction by McKeon
126:10 Essays on Dewey, Peirce, more
126:24 Rhetoric

128,129,130 misc notes and MSS

Research Card Files
try these out, see what they’re like, then try the rest to taste
132:13 on Arist
134:46-55 Encyc.
135: Method, Princ, Interpretation (esp. 135:1—no heading—selections?)

Lecture Notes
Start with these
136:1-3 logic
136:15 OII
137:7 character
137:8 hum
137:9 education
137:10 philosophy of education
137:12 lib arts
138:20 20c philosophy
138:22 Peirce

138:26 Dewey
138:28 Conflict and communication in modern philosophy
138:31 fashions in Philosophy . . . plato, arist, Thomas, spinoza, dewey
139:9 rights
139:13 UNESCO
139:14 misc
140:1 I&M etc.
140:5 ditto
140:28-35, 141:1-2 Arist
141:7 Rhetoric

141:12 Cicero
142:28 semantics; 29 themes, 30 inquiry, 31themes, 32 invention, 33 hypotheses, 34 themes
143:1 PSPI
143:2 method
143:5 creativity, poetic and rhetoric
143:6-7 facts and categories
143:9 philosophy communication and the arts
144:1 arist
144:2 rhetoric
145:1 misc
145:10 invention and topics 1972
147:12 creativity and invention 1970
147:16 OII 1944
147:34 rhetoric and philosophy of education

conferences
153:1 probs of communication in a pluralistic society
etc.

UNESCO materials
Boxes 167-188 – all
183:2-10, 184:1-2, Ctee on HUMAN RIGHTS
188:1-3 Misc

EB
189:1-2 history of EB and of Encyc’s
190:7-8 Roof Articles project

Reel Tapes ($50 each)
200:7-14 Creativity
203:4 et. al. PSPI 1967