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| Written in the spirit of an idea about ideas, a narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to talk about ideas and whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. Read by Henry Leyva. |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
2002 Pulitzer Prize |
| Authors: |
Louis Menand |
| Nonfiction Subcategory: |
Metaphysics |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Philosophy |
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Professional Reviews
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American Scientist: "A gifted and well-practiced writer can tell an old story and make it seem new and exciting. Louis Menand is such a writer, and his version of the story of pragmatism is the most lively and integrated yet told. Menand's incisive and remarkably relaxed exposition of philosophical ideas and his skillfully executed biographical narratives render THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB an accessible and deeply engaging account of one of the most important intellectual movements in the history of the United States....It conveys much more of the intellectual history of the United States than do the many conventional books that devote one chapter to one thinker and another chapter to the next, and so on. Menand puts it all together. If you can read only one book about pragmatism and American culture, this is the book to read." |
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Book Editions
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- Audio - Compact Disc
- Abridged
- August 17, 2001
- Highbridge Co
- 5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 1"(d), 0.5 lbs.
- 9781565115422
, - Paperback
- Reprint
- 546
- April 01, 2002
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 8.5"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.5"(d), 1.4 lbs.
- 9780374528492
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