The Metaphysical Club By Louis Menand The Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept . · FRITZ LANHAM. J. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB. A Story of Ideas in America. By Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus Giroux, $ AS a club, it had a short life. In the summer of a group of Author: FRITZ LANHAM. The Metaphysical Club. By LOUIS MENAND. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Read the Review. THE POLITICS OF SLAVERY. 1. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was .
The Metaphysical Club, by Louis Menand. One word crops up unexpectedly often in The Metaphysical Club: "invidious." Well, it only turns up seven times (and two of those are actually "invidiousness"), but I sincerely doubt I (or you) have read many books, even of greater length, which use the word or its inflections more frequently.*. By Louis Menand. Illustrated. pages. Farrar, Straus Giroux. $ None of the letters, diaries or other writings by members of the Metaphysical Club ever saw fit to mention the group's brief. THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB. A Story of Ideas in America. By Louis Menand. Farrar, Straus Giroux, $ AS a club, it had a short life. In the summer of a group of young men in Cambridge, Mass.
THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB is Louis Menand's award-winning book about the emergence of pragmatism as a distinct school of thought. The book's vehicle for describing the early decades of pragmatism is a discussion of a group of thinkers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who participated in a loosely organized club that, in fact, called itself "The Metaphysical Club". The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Louis Menand, an American writer and legal scholar, which won the Pulitzer Prize for History. The book recounts the lives and intellectual work of the handful of thinkers primarily responsible for the philosophical concept of pragmatism, a principal feature of American philosophical achievement: William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey. Pragmatism proved to be. The Metaphysical Club was a conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and dissolved in December Upon Peirce's arrival at Johns Hopkins University in , he founded a new Metaphysical Club there.
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