KENNETH BURKE, of the Bennington College Literature Department, was born in 1897 in Pittsburgh, Pa. He has been a prolific writer of stories, translations, critical articles; book reviewer and music critic; and lecturer on the practice and theory of literary criticism and on the psychology of the literary form. He spent the past academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is teaching this summer at the School of Letters, Indiana University. His books include Counter-Statement, Permanence and Change, Attitudes Towards History, Philosophy of Literary Form--Studies in Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and A Rhetoric of Motives.
WERNER HEISENBERG was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1901. He has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics since 1941, and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen since 1946. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1932 for his researches in atomic physics. In addition to articles and books on atomic and nuclear physics, he has published contributions to the philosophy of science.
ERICH KAHLER was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1885. He has been on the faculties of The New School for Social Research, Black Mountain College and Cornell University. In 1955, he gave the Christian Gauss Seminars for Criticism at Princeton University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. since 1949, and is at present a Visiting Professor at Ohio State University. His publications include Man the Measure and The Tower and the Abyss.
ROLLO MAY was born in Ohio, in 1909, and received his Ph. D. from Columbia University in 1949. A practicing analyst in New York City, Dr. May is a Fellow and Member of the Faculty of the Wil-
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Publication Information: Book Title: Symbolism in Religion and Literature. Contributors: Rollo May - editor. Publisher: George Braziller. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1960. Page Number: 251.
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