H. J. Blackham

H. J. Blackham

Infobox Person


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occupation = Writer and philosopher

Harold John Blackham (born March 31, 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 0-89875-166-7
*"The Future of our Past: from Ancient Greece to Global Village" (1996). Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-042-8
*"The Fable as Literature" (1985). London: Continuum International Publishing Group - Athlone. ISBN 0-485-11278-7
*"Education for Personal Autonomy: Inquiry into the School's Resources for Furthering the Personal Development of Pupils" (editor) (1977). London: Bedford Sq. Press. ISBN 0-7199-0937-6
*"Humanists and Quakers: an exchange of letters" (with Harold Loukes) (1969). Friends Home Service. ISBN 0-85245-011-7
*"Humanism" (1968). London: Penguin. (published by Harvester in hardback, 1976. ISBN 0-85527-209-0)
*"Religion in a Modern Society" (1966). London: Constable
*"Objections to Humanism" (editor) (1963). London: Constable. ISBN 0-09-450170-X (published in paperback by Penguin, 1965, ISBN 0-14-020765-1)
*"The Humanist Tradition" (1953). London: Routledge.
*"Six Existentialist Thinkers" (1952). London: Routledge. ISBN 0-7100-1087-7
*"Living as a Humanist" (1950)

ee also

*Barbara Smoker, a fellow Humanist who published "Blackham's Best"

External links

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/atheism/people/blackham.shtml BBC Biography of HJ Blackham by Jim Herrick]
*worldcat id|lccn-n50-8581


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