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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Menand, Louis.     Subjects     Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 1841-1935.     James, William, 1842-1910.     Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.     Dewey, John, 1859-1952     Metaphysics -- History -- 20th century.     National characteristics, American.     Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.     Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Menand, Louis.       by title:      The Metaphysical Clu...         MARC Display

The Metaphysical Club / Louis Menand. by Menand, Louis. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002, c2001. Subjects Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 1841-1935.   James, William, 1842-1910.   Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.   Dewey, John, 1859-1952   Metaphysics -- History -- 20th century.   National characteristics, American.   Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.   United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.   Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. Description:  xii, 546 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. Edition:  1st pbk. ed. Contents:  Politics of slavery -- Abolitionist -- Wilderness and after -- Man of two minds -- Agassiz -- Brazil -- Peirces -- Law of errors -- Metaphysical club -- Burlington -- Baltimore -- Chicago -- Pragmatisms -- Pluralisms -- Freedoms -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index. Requests:  0 Summary:  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 all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely depend -- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea not on its immutability but on its adaptability.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Lihue Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.9 Me Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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