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Celebrating the Centennial of Albert Murray (Guest Post)

[Editor’s Note: Full Stop recently celebrated the centennial of Albert Murray. The following guest post from Michael Schapira, who is an Interviews editor at Full Stop and teaches Philosophy at Hofstra University, introduces and links Full Stop’s commemoration for readers of our blog — Ben Alpers] Centennials are convenient occasions to revisit, or in the case of Albert Murray, expose to a broad readership the prodigious career of an important figure in 20th century intellectual life. Murray would have turned 100 on May 12 (he passed away in 2013) and his birthday was commemorated with profiles in The New Yorker, Read more