Robert S. Hartman Papers
This collection consists primarily of publications, drafts, correspondence, student papers, reference materials, reel-to-reel tapes, and other documents showing Robert S. Hartman's study of such subjects as profit sharing, philosophy, and axiology. Other materials document his career as a Professor at the University of Tennessee, the University of Mexico, Ohio State University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dates
- 1944-1973
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Extent
60.5 Linear Feet (64 boxes [57 record, 7 half])
Abstract
This collection consists primarily of publications, drafts, correspondence, student papers, reference materials, reel-to-reel tapes, and other documents showing Robert S. Hartman's study of such subjects as profit sharing, philosophy, and axiology. Other materials document his career as a Professor at the University of Tennessee, the University of Mexico, Ohio State University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Biographical/Historical Note
Robert Schirokauer was born in Berlin, Germany, on January 27, 1910. From 1932 to 1933, Schirokauer worked for the University of Berlin and as a Referendar (Assistant Judge) of the Berlin-Charlottenburg District Court. In 1932, he fled Germany for England under the name Robert Schirokauer Hartman. After leaving Germany, Hartman worked as a photographer in London and Paris before accepting a position as a Representative for Walt Disney Productions in 1934. He went on to work as an Instructor and Assistant Professor at the College of Wooster, Ohio (1945-1948), as an Associate Professor at Ohio State University (1948-1956), and as a Fulbright Professor and Research Professor at the National University of Mexico (1957-1973). Hartman also served as a Visiting Professor at MIT (1956-1957), at Yale University (1966), and at the University of Tennessee (1968-1969) in addition to writing a number of books, including Profit Sharing Manual (1948), The Partnership of Capital and Labor: Theory and Practice of a New Economic System (1958), The Structure of Value & Foundations of Scientific Axiology (1959), and The Knowledge of Good (1965). Hartman married Rita Emanuel in 1936 and the couple had one son, Jan Alfred (d. 2006). Hartman died on September 20, 1973 and is buried near his home in Parque de la Paz Cemetery in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Arrangement
This collection consists of sixty-four boxes divided into six series:
- Series I: Profit Sharing
- Sub-Series A: Council of Profit Sharing
- Sub-Series B: Corporate Management Materials
- Sub-Series C: Manuscripts
- Sub-Series D: Correspondence
- Sub-Series E: Reference Material
- Series II: Value
- Sub-Series A: Books
- Sub-Series B: Articles on Axiology and Value
- Sub-Series C: Articles on Ethics
- Series III: University Material
- Sub-Series A: University of Tennessee Student Papers
- Sub-Series B: University of Mexico Student Papers
- Sub-Series C: Ohio State University and MIT Student Papers
- Sub-Series D: Classroom Materials
- Sub-Series E: Materials Collected from Various Universities
- Series IV: Published Material
- Sub-Series A: The Moral Situation
- Sub-Series B: Essays in the Value of Logic
- Sub-Series C: Other Books by Hartman
- Sub-Series D: Articles by Hartman
- Sub-Series E: Articles by Other Authors
- Sub-Series F: Fragments of Manuscripts by Hartman
- Series V: Reference Material
- Sub-Series A: Material Regarding Kant
- Sub-Series B: Material Regarding Evil and Philosophy
- Sub-Series C: Material Regarding Language and Aesthetics
- Sub-Series D: Correspondence
- Sub-Series E: Assorted News Clippings
- Sub-Series F: Books and Record Materials
- Sub-Series G: Chinese Language Material
- Sub-Series H: General Reference Material
- Series VI: Reel-to-Reel Tapes
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository