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The Metaphysical Club : [a story of ideas in America] / Louis Menand.

Menand, Louis. (Author).

Summary:

A 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 Wendell 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.

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  • ISBN: 0374528497 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780374528492 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: xii, 546 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: c2001.
Subtitle from cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-520) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Metaphysics > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Cambridge (Mass.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Intellectuals > United States > History > 20th century.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
James, William, 1842-1910.
Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
Dewey, John, 1859-1952.

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