Irving Singer
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Irving Singer is a professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of books on various topics, including cinema, love, sexuality, and the philosophy of George Santayana. He has written about the work of film directors Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles. Singer has been publishing on philosophy since 1951. Irving Singer retired in 2013 after 55 years of teaching at MIT.
Literature
- Books
- Meaning in Life Volume 1: The Creation of Value, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- Meaning in Life Volume 2: The Pursuit of Love, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
- Meaning in Life Volume 3: The Harmony of Nature and Spirit, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
- George Santayana, Literary Philosopher, Yale University Press, 2000.
- Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on his Creativity, MIT Press, 2007.
- Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film, MIT Press, 2008.
- Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives, MIT Press, 2011.
- Selected articles
- "Santayana and the Photographic Image", Proceedings of the Bicentennial Symposium of Philosophy, October 1976.
- "Santayana and the Ontology of the Photographic Image", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Fall 1977.
