Metaphysical Club A Story of Ideas in America

Name: Metaphysical Club A Story of Ideas in America
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ISBN: 9780374528492

ISBN-10: 0374528497

ISBN-13: 9780374528492

Edition: 2001

Authors: Louis Menand

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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. Holmes, James, and Peirce…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 4/10/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Preface






The Politics of Slavery



The Abolitionist



The Wilderness and After






The Man of Two Minds



Agassiz



Brazil






The Peirces



The Law of Errors



The Metaphysical Club






Burlington



Baltimore



Chicago






Pragmatisms



Pluralisms



Freedoms


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Works Cited


Index