For Serious Mitchell Fans
For those of you who have an archival interest in Richard Mitchell, you can download a PDF here of his 1963 scholarly article "An Age of Issues and a Literature of Troubles" in Western Humanities Review.
*** Hofstadter's Law: It will always take longer than you think it will take, even if you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
posted by WitNit at
7:56 AM
6 Old Comments:
Mark,
Thanks for posting the article. I hope some find it worthwhile.
I'm doing a seminar paper on Mitchell's work, and I wonderif you or any of your readers would know where I could find more writings both by and about Mitchell. I've come across some articles by him in the New York Times and an article about him in Time, but I know there's more out there. I'd greatly appreciate any information, although I'm rapidly running out of time to finish this paper. Thanks.
Anthony
Thanks, Anthony, for providing the PDF. Everything I have is posted on the UG website. I assume you got the obituaries posted on the testimonials page. I will post a special request to get info to you, if you want your email posted.
Yes, please do. Any information would be great. Thanks.
I wonder if anyone sorted through Mitchell's personal documents after he died? Who knows what he might have left behind - more psyche papers, perhaps, or some lecture notes. Someone ought to collect these things for posterity, which will probably need all the help it can get.
I have only briefly skimmed An Age of Issues, but I immediately noticed two things. First is that right off the bat, Mitchell makes his classic distinction between the individual and the social. Second is his seeming assertion that human nature is not eternally fixed, and his plea for a "scientific" literature. These positions are at odds with his later writing.
I need to give the essay a proper reading, though.
I asked Mitchell not long before he died if he had any other unpublished writings for me. He only sent the four Psyche Papers, which had already been published. I don't think there is anything else. Whatever happened to end the UG, it appears to ended his desire to write.
I was a student of Mitchell's at Defiance College. I have parts of several class lectures on audio tape (which I could render into .mp3 files). Also I have videotape of his appearance on Dick Cavett and audio tape and stills of his first appearance on The Tonight Show. I'd be glad to share this material with anyone who would like to post it to a web site.
rpotter177@charter.net
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