Kenneth Megill

Kenneth Alden Megill (肯尼斯•梅吉尔)
Ken Megill in China 2011
Born	1939 Esbon, Kansas, United States
Nationality	American
Education	BA with Honors in Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1960 University of Mainz, Germany 1961–62 Yale University MA 1964 Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 1964–65 Yale University PhD 1966 The Catholic University of America MSLS 1987
Occupation	President, Knowledge Application Services LLC
Known for	Democratic Political Theory Records and Knowledge Management theory and practice Political and Trade Union activist

BA with Honors in Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1960
University of Mainz, Germany 1961–62
Yale University MA 1964
Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 1964–65
Yale University PhD 1966

Democratic Political Theory Records and Knowledge Management theory and practice

Kenneth Megill is an American philosopher, trade unionist, political activist, and records and knowledge manager.

Megill's primary philosophical contribution is the development of a democratic theory in the tradition of Democratic Marxism. Megill defined democracy as a political and social order where people control where they live and work.

In 1961-1962 he studied with Karl-Otto Apel who introduced him to the works of Karl Marx, Charles Sanders Peirce, Martin Heidegger, and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In 1964-1965 he studied at the Free University of Berlin where he worked with manuscripts by Marx that had only recently been made available. The Free University was one of the main scenes of the German student movement of 1968. The events of the 1968 movement provided the impulse for more openness, equality, and democracy in German society. Megill participated in several seminars that were attended by students who went on to be active in the student movement in Germany and France in 1968. In addition to attending seminars in West Berlin, he commuted through the Berlin Wall and was enrolled at the Humboldt University of Berlin in an advanced graduate seminar in Dialectical Materialism taught by the head of the philosophy department in the German Democratic Republic. Megill received his masters (1964) and doctoral (1966) degrees with a dissertation on "The Community as a Democratic Principle in Marx's Philosophy" at Yale University. Richard Bernstein was his adviser.