{{Short description|Twentieth-century American philosopher}} {{Infobox philosopher | region = Western Philosophy | era = 20th-century philosophy | name = Albert Hofstadter |birth_date = March 28, 1910 |birth_place= |death_date = {{death-date and age|January 26, 1989|March 28, 1910}} |death_place= |school_tradition = Continental philosophy, Phenomenology |main_interests = Philosophy of art, philosophy in literature |notable_ideas = }} '''Albert Hofstadter''' (March 28, 1910 – January 26, 1989) was an American philosopher.
==Life and career== Hofstadter taught at Columbia University (1950–67), the University of California at Santa Cruz (1968–75) and the New School for Social Research (1976–78).<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/28/obituaries/albert-hofstadter-philosopher-78.html?pagewanted=1 "Albert Hofstadter, Philosopher, 78", ''New York Times'', Jan. 28., 1989]</ref> He was the elder brother of physicist and Nobel laureate Robert Hofstadter and the uncle of Robert's son, Douglas Hofstadter.
==Thoughts on the later Heidegger== As a Heidegger scholar, Hofstadter contends that Heidegger is able to shape and use language in keeping with his basic insight that language is the house of Being, i.e., where humans dwell. "It is by staying with the thinking the language itself does that Heidegger is able to rethink, and thus think anew, the oldest, the perennial and perennially forgotten thoughts."<ref>Heidegger, Martin and Albert Hofstadter. "Introduction," ''Poetry, Language, Thought.''. New York: Harper Collins, 1971, pg. xvi.</ref> One of these is the Being of beings in the sense of aletheia. Hofstadter praises Heidegger's project to free human beings from alienated ways of relating to things, "letting us find in it a real dwelling place instead of the cold, sterile hostelry in which we presently find ourselves."<ref>Hofstadter, 1971, pg. xvii.</ref>
==Major works==
===Books (authored and edited)=== * {{cite book | title=Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger | url=https://archive.org/details/philosophiesofar00hofsrich | url-access=registration | others= co-edited by Richard Kuhns | publisher=Modern Library | year = 1964 }}
* {{cite book | title=Truth and Art | url=https://archive.org/details/truthart00hofs | url-access=registration | publisher=Columbia University Press | year = 1965 }}
* {{cite book | title=Agony and Epitaph: Man, His Art, and His Poetry | publisher=George Braziller | year = 1970 | isbn = 978-0-8076-0544-8 }}
===Translations=== * {{cite book | last= Heidegger | first= Martin | translator = Albert Hofstadter | title= The Basic Problems of Phenomenology | url= https://archive.org/details/basicproblemsofp00mart | url-access= registration | publisher=Indiana University Press | year = 1982 | isbn= 9780253176868 }} * {{cite book | last= Heidegger | first= Martin | translator = Albert Hofstadter | title= Poetry, Language, Thought | publisher=Harper Collins | year = 1971 }}
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==References== * [http://philpapers.org/autosense.pl?searchStr=Albert%20Hofstadter Bibliography of articles by Albert Hofstadter at ''philpapers.org'']
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