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Josiah Royce (1855 -1916) was an American idealist philosopher whose work became obscure following his death. Royce's philosophy has been revisited in recent years by a small group of philosophers; and much work has been done in restating and revitalizing his thought. With the approaching centenary in 2016 of Royce's death, there will be an increased tendency to revisit Royce.
Royce and students of Royce are fortunate in having as a resource John Clendenning's thorough and insightful biography, "The Life and Thought of Josiah Royce". Clendenning first published the book and 1985 and revised and expanded it in 1999 following additional thought and the discovery of additional letters and other source material. The result is a book that is indispensable to students of Royce and of American philosophy that also offers a great deal of value to non-specialist readers. Clendenning also edited a volume of the letters of Royce which also is of great value but which does not include some of the more recently discovered material. Clendenning is professor emeritus of English at California State University, Northridge. With his literary background, Clendenning discusses literary influences on Royce from Aeschylus and Sophocles to Robert Browning.
Royce followed an unlikely path to philosophy. He was the child of California pioneers in the days of the gold rush who grew up in the rough mining town of Spring Valley. He was shy and precocious with an often absent father and a protective mother both of whom were deeply religious. In spite of the family's poverty, Royce was an early student at the University of California and was able to spend a year in philosophical study in Germany before earning his PhD at Johns Hopkins at the age of 22. Royce taught in California for four years before receiving a position at Harvard where he taught for the remainder of his life.
Clendenning's book portrays the continuity and growth in Royce's life and thought. Without overly psychologizing, he finds the source of Royce's thinking in his early pioneer childhood with the absentee father. The book explores Royce's writings from stories he wrote as a child to the projects he was contemplating just before he died. For example, Clendenning discusses a story that Royce wrote as a child probably with his mother's assistance, "Pussycat Blackie's Travels" that has recently been published.
The book discusses Royce's lifelong friendship with William James which combined the great affection of these two thinkers for one another with strong philosophical differences. The Royce-James relationship shows how individuals may love and learn from those with whom they may disagree. The book portrays the difficult and frequently tragic aspects of Royce's personal life. It shows the nature of American intellectual life from the late 19th to the early 20th century. The book also shows a Royce ambitious to succeed in academia who wrote and published prolifically -- possibly too much -- in his efforts to establish himself. Clendenning understands Royce's work as addressing what Clendenning describes as the prevailing issue of 20th Century life -- the alienation of individuals from the community and from the life of the spirit.
The biography sees Royce's work as two hills surrounded by valleys. The hills are Royce's two masterworks, "The World and the Individual" written at the turn of the century and "The Problem of Christianity" of 1913. The former book developed a detailed form of philosophical absolute idealism while the latter work showed Royce's later preoccupation with the nature of community. Clendenning shows how Royce's works led to his fullest formulation of philosophical idealism and then, with criticism and events in Royce's life, shifted in focus to ethics and community. Students of Royce still disagree about the presence and importance of philosophical absolute idealism in his latter writings.
Royce's books tend to be lengthy and difficult and sometimes difficult to find. This book offers an overview of Royce's major books and essays while showing how his thought developed. Among the many works considered are Royce's history of California, "The Religious Aspect of Philosophy", "The Spirit of Modern Philosophy", "Studies of Good and Evil", "The Philosophy of Loyalty", "The Sources of Religious Insight" and more. The book helps readers understand Royce's thinking and development and encourages those interested to pursue his work further.
I have been studying and reading Royce and his fellow American philosophers for some years. I learned a great deal from this book that explains and deepens my interest in Royce. Clendenning summarizes his view of Royce on the final page of his study:
"His books for many years were unread, and one by one they dropped out of print. In our own age few seem convinced by his massive arguments for the absolute which once commanded attention: 'loyalty' is now a word that offends. The hope of the great community and the international organization to insure peace is still unfulfilled. But having lived through two global wars, political murders, international intrigues and interventions, social uprisings, racism, environmental destruction, and the plain lies of our leaders -- many may now feel that the search for a spiritual community must still direct the best hopes of mankind."
Clendenning's book offers a measured yet inspiring discussion of Royce. As Royce would have wished, the book will encourage readers to think about now unfamiliar perspectives and to work through life and philosophical issues for themselves.
