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For other people with names similar to this go to William Poteat (disambiguation)William H. Poteat (19 April 1919 – 17 May 2000) was a philosopher scholar and charismatic professor of philosophy religion and culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1947 to 1957 and at Duke University from 1960 to 1987. During that time he did foundational work in the critique of Modern and Postmodern intellectual culture.

birth date
1919-04-19
birth place
Henan, Kaifeng
death date
2000-05-17
death place
Durham North Carolina
influenced by
Blaise Pascal, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Michael Polanyi, Søren Kierkegaard, Paul Ricœur, Walker Percy, Hannah Arendt, H. Richard Niebuhr
main interest
Michael Polanyi, Philosophical anthropology, Post-Critical
notableIdea
Age of Enlightenment, Irony

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