The Metaphysical Club: A Story Of Ideas In America
by Louis Menand /
2001 / English / PDF
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Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred
to in the title of this superb literary hybrid-part history, part
biography, part philosophy- consisted of four members and probably
existed for less than nine months. Yet its impact upon American
intellectual life remains incalculable. Louis Menand masterfully
weaves pivotal late 19th-and early 20th-century events, colorful
biographical anecdotes, and abstract ideas into a narrative whole
that both enthralls and enlightens.The Metaphysical Club is a
compellingly vital account of how the cluster of ideas that came to
be called pragmatism was forged from the searing experiences of its
progenitors' lives. Here are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles
Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, all of them giants
of American thought made colloquially accessible both as human
beings and as intellects.
Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred
to in the title of this superb literary hybrid-part history, part
biography, part philosophy- consisted of four members and probably
existed for less than nine months. Yet its impact upon American
intellectual life remains incalculable. Louis Menand masterfully
weaves pivotal late 19th-and early 20th-century events, colorful
biographical anecdotes, and abstract ideas into a narrative whole
that both enthralls and enlightens.The Metaphysical Club is a
compellingly vital account of how the cluster of ideas that came to
be called pragmatism was forged from the searing experiences of its
progenitors' lives. Here are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles
Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, all of them giants
of American thought made colloquially accessible both as human
beings and as intellects.