Frank M. Oppenheim, S.J., on Reverence for the Relations of Life (REVIEW ESSAY)

Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) August 16, 2023: The late American Jesuit philosopher and theologian and Royce specialist Frank M. Oppenheim (1925-2020; Ph.D. in philosophy, Saint Louis University, 1962) achieved an impressive synthesis of the lives and works of four American philosophers: Josiah Royce (1855-1916), Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), William James (1842-1910), and John Dewey (1859-1952) in his book Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James, and Dewey (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005 - the year in which Oppenheim turned eighty).

Royce used the expression reverence for the relations of life in more than one of his books. It is an apt title for Oppenheim's 2005 book.

I profile both Oppenheim and Royce briefly in my OEN article "Frank M. Oppenheim's Loyalty to Josiah Royce" (dated August 3, 2023):

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Oppenheim is also the author of three earlier books about Royce:

(1) Royce's Voyage Down Under: A Journey of the Mind (University Press of Kentucky, 1980);

(2) Royce's Mature Philosophy of Religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 1987);

(3) Royce's Mature Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press, 1993).

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