LOUIS MENAND
THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB: A STORY OF IDEAS IN AMERICA
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize.
OUTLINE
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., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics.
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Menand brings rare common sense and graceful, witty prose to his richly nuanced reading of American intellectual history. - New York Times.
Menand, a New Yorker staff writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York, brilliantly pieces together a broad-ranging cultural history of pragmatism, the times in which it emerged and diverged, and the intellectual curiosity that drove it on. - Publishers Weekly.
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