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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
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- ISBN
- 9780374199630
- Book Title
- Metaphysical Club : a Story of Ideas in America
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Philosophy
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Movements / Pragmatism, Individual Philosophers, Metaphysics, Lawyers & Judges, United States / General
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 30.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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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 depent -- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea deps not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374199639
ISBN-13
9780374199630
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1634965
Product Key Features
Book Title
Metaphysical Club : a Story of Ideas in America
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Movements / Pragmatism, Individual Philosophers, Metaphysics, Lawyers & Judges, United States / General
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Philosophy
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
30.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
E169.1.M546 2001
Reviews
"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. What makes Menand's story "old" is not simply that the careers of his leading characters-John Dewey, William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Charles Peirce-are familiar. Menand's sense of what makes them important is more or less standard. These men differed from most American and European thinkers of their time by accepting a large measure of uncertainty in the foundations for moral and cognitive judgments, and by treating ideas not as mirrors of a stable reality but instead as flexible tools for engaging a truly contingent world. Menand's basic explanation for the emergence of this way of thinking, moreover, tracks a number of earlier studies. That the 1870s in New England should be the time and place in which these tendencies were the most vigorously pioneered owed much to the virtually simultaneous experience of the Civil War and the Darwinian revolution in an atmosphere of capitalist expansion and of an intensely Protestant moral and metaphysical idealism. What most makes Menand's telling of this story "new" is his success in integrating the personal lives of Dewey, James, Holmes and Peirce, and in showing precisely the intellectual continuities that justify our remembering them as a group. The Metaphysical Club is an exercise in dialectical intellectual biography. Menand demonstrates that the thinking of each of his four central characters developed in relation to each other's ideas and personalities throughout their lifetimes, in relation to each other's teachers and students, and in relation to features of New England culture that all four experienced. Other books address the three philosophers but omit the jurist, Holmes, or deal with the worldly Dewey and Holmes and not with the more cloistered Peirce and James (or vice versa). Many studies take up any one or more of these four giants in relation to some larger cluster. But no one has done a better job than Menand in showing the social and psychological process of thinking on the part of this exceptionally influential quartet of closely related intellectuals. Menand's title refers to a small discussion group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the early 1870s in which James, Holmes and Peirce were occasional participants, but the title threatens to obscure the breadth of Menand's research and analysis. Menand offers cogent and persuasive accounts of how a range of other thinkers inspired or were inspired by The Four. His discussion of the cultural pluralists Horace Kallen, Alain Locke and Randolph Bourne is nuanced, and he does a good, if brief, job with Jane Addams, Arthur Bentley, W.E.B. Du Bois and Franz Boas. Surprisingly, Menand pays almost no attention to Josiah Royce, the popular Harvard philosopher deeply influenced by Peirce, and in dialogue with whom James developed many of his most important ideas, especially those defended in his great book of 1907, Pragmatism. Along the way, Menand provides a crisp and informative portrait of Louis Agassiz, the luminous anti-Darwinian who dominated the American scientific community during the middle decades of the 19th century. Agassiz epitomized the dogmatic certainty that the pragmatists eventually rejected. Convinced that species were fixed ideas in the mind of the Creator, and long a defender of the view that Negroes were a species distinc
Copyright Date
2001
Lccn
00-066279
Dewey Decimal
973.9
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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