The Philolexian Society of Columbia University
Victorino Tejera
Vital
- Full name
- Victorino Tejera
Columbia & the Society
- Columbia
- Class of 1948 (Columbia College)
- Society role
- 1947 Philolexian revival signatory (per Melnechuk's class-notes account of the original scroll).
Works (16)
- 1965 Art and Human Intelligence · Aesthetics (Appleton-Century-Crofts)
- 1966 Aristotle's Analytics · American R.D.M. Corp.
- 1971 Modes of Greek Thought · Appleton-Century-Crofts
- 1984 History as a Human Science · University Press of America
- 1984 Plato's Dialogues One by One: A Structural Interpretation · Irvington Publishers
- 1984 The City-State Foundations of Western Political Thought · University Press of America
- 1987 Nietzsche and Greek Thought · Martinus Nijhoff
- 1988 Semiotics from Peirce to Barthes · E. J. Brill
- 1989 History and Anti-History in Philosophy (ed.) · Editorial, with T. Z. Lavine (Kluwer)
- 1995 Literature, Criticism, and the Theory of Signs · John Benjamins Publishing Co.
- 1996 American Modern: The Path Not Taken · Aesthetics & intellectual history (Rowman & Littlefield)
- 1996 Aristotle's Organon in Epitome: The Poetics, the Rhetoric, the Analytics · Edwin Mellen Press
- 1997 Rewriting the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy · Greenwood
- 1998 The Return of the King: The Intellectual Warfare over Democratic Athens · University Press of America
- 1999 Plato's Dialogues One by One: A Dialogical Interpretation · Rev. ed. of his 1984 study
- 2014 Two Metaphysical Naturalisms: Aristotle and Justus Buchler · Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Primary sources
Columbia College Today & other articles
Columbia College Today — vol. 44 (Nov 2002 / Jan 2003), Class of 1948 alumni class notes by Ted Melnechuk
Thomas Vinceguerra '85, former managing editor of CCT and now deputy editor of The Week, helped to revive the Philolexian Society in October 1985 and still helps to maintain and lead it... In the Columbia archives, Tom discovered the Philolexian Society's original membership scroll. From it, he could tell that, between Philos' original founding in 1802 and its 1985 revival, it was revived twice. The first revival was in 1944 and involved Walter Wager '44, who nowadays is that year's class correspondent. The second was in October 1947, and among the signatures from that time were those of Vincent Carrozza '49, Jason Epstein '49, and Theodor [sic] Melnechuk... Tom sent me a list of members of our class who were members of the Philolexian Society when it was revived in 1947. They included Sylvain Bromberger, the late Barry Decker, Herbert C. V. Feinstein, the late Allen Ginsberg, Donald…
Melnechuk's class-notes column names Victorino Tejera as a 1947 revival signatory — cross-checked against Thomas Vinciguerra's 1980s discovery of the original Philolexian membership scroll in the Columbia archives, which lists the members who signed at the October 1947 revival. Two-source confirmation of Society membership: (a) the physical scroll signature, and (b) Vinciguerra + Melnechuk's transcription.
The Foundation's research archive
Philolexian Foundation research file: handwritten list of Philos by class year
listed under the year heading 1946 · Confidence: CERTAIN
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