Time Bettering Days and Other Essays

The contributions of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888-1973) one of the most profound and original thinkers of the twentieth century span several disciplines in the humanities--history philosophy sociology linguistics religion--although his work is ultimately uncategorizable. In 1933 immediately upon the ascent of Hitler he emigrated to the United States from Germany where he had been teaching at the University of Breslau. In the US he was a professor at Harvard University for two years and then moved to Dartmouth College where he taught until 1957. His voice is prophetic urgent and compelling and it remains relevant. This volume is a compilation of nine essays written between 1937 and 1961 all but one of them previously unpublished.