The [a story of ideas in America] Menand, Louis 1952- creator text nyu New York, NY Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002 first paperback edition monographic eng xii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm The Metaphysical Club is an intellectual history of America in the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, focused on the development of pragmatism, and how certain thinkers—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey—emerged from, and responded to, their historical and cultural contexts. Preface Part One The Politics of Slavery The Abolitionist The Wilderness and After Part Two The Man of Two Minds Agassiz Brazil Part Three The Peirces The Law of Errors The Metaphysical Club Part Four Burlington Baltimore Chicago Part Five Pragmatisms Pluralisms Freedoms Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index Louis Menand. Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-520) and index. Jr Holmes, Oliver Wendell 1841-1935 James, William 1842-1910 Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders) 1839-1914 Dewey, John 1859-1952 Historia de la metafísica Metafísica Historia Características nacionales estadounidenses Intelectuales Historia Estados Unidos Estados Unidos Vida intelectual Estados Unidos Condiciones sociales 002 E 169.1 M534m 2002 9780374528492 0374528497 251008 20251121153839.0 eng