H.J. Blackham
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Harold John Blackham (31 March 1903 - ) is a leading British humanist and writer on philosophical and historical subjects.
Joining the Ethical Union, Blackham drew the organisation further away from religious forms and played an important part in its formation into the British Humanist Association, becoming the BHA's first Executive Director in 1963. He was also a founding member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), IHEU secretary (1952-1966), and received the IHEU's International Humanist Award in 1974, and the Special Award for Service to World Humanism in 1978.
His book "Six Existentialist Thinkers" became a popular university textbook.
Publications
- Bury, JB, with an historical epilogue by HJ Blackham. A History of Freedom of Thought (2001). University Press of the Pacific. ISBN 0898751667
- The Future of our Past: from Ancient Greece to Global Village (1996). Prometheus Books. ISBN 1573920428
- The Fable as Literature (1985). London: Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone. ISBN 0485112787
- Education for Personal Autonomy: Inquiry into the School's Resources for Furthering the Personal Development of Pupils (editor) (1977). London: Bedford Sq. Press. ISBN 0719909376
- Humanists and Quakers: an exchange of letters (with Harold Loukes) (1969). Friends Home Service. ISBN 0852450117
- Humanism (1968). London: Penguin. (published by Harvester in hardback, 1976. ISBN 0855272090)
- Religion in a Modern Society (1966). London: Constable
- Objections to Humanism (editor) (1963). London: Constable. ISBN 009450170X (published in paperback by Penguin, 1965, ISBN 0140207651)
- The Humanist Tradition (1953). London: Routledge.
- Six Existentialist Thinkers (1952). London: Routledge. ISBN 0710010877
- Living as a Humanist (1950)
See also
- Barbara Smoker, a fellow Humanist who published "Blackham's Best"
External links
- [BBC Biography of HJ Blackham by Jim Herrick]
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