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The Metaphysical Club : [a story of ideas in America] / Louis Menand.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002Edition: first paperback editionDescription: xii, 546 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780374528492
  • 0374528497
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 002 E 169.1 M534m 2002
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 002 E 169.1 M534m 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000196486

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-520) and index.

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

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.

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