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1	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America more books like this by Louis Menand, III In an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, Menand discusses the Metaphysical Club, an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. 21 photos. see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.53! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Metaphysical Club more books like this by Louis Menand, III The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Best American Essays more books like this by Louis Menand, III (Editor), Robert Atwan (Editor) Louis Menand (who contributes an introduction called "Voices") has chosen an array of 20 essayists from many publications. Writers include Oliver Sacks, Luc Sante, Cynthia Zarin, Anne Fadiman, Rick Moody, Laura Hillenbrand, and Tim Judah, with work from The American Scholar, Granta, Artforum, Harper's, and (of course) The New Yorker, which has a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Civilizations and Its Discontents more books like this by Sigmund Freud, Louis Menand, III (Introduction by) "CIVILIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, ... see all copies from $11.62! new only from $11.62! \| SVS
5	The Future of Academic Freedom more books like this by Louis Menand, III (Editor) In this text nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of their effect on the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on free speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it ... see all copies from $5.51! new only from $11.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	American Studies more books like this by Louis Menand, III Polymath and critic Louis Menand's collection of essays covers, among other topics, Maya Lin's Vietnam memorial, popular music, Norman Mailer, and sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.25! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Women in Love Women in Love more books like this by D H Lawrence, Louis Menand, III (Introduction by) D. H. Lawrence considered WOMEN IN LOVE, his sequel to THE RAINBOW, to be his best novel. It traces the stories of Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, particularly their romantic entanglements and dilemmas. Ursula marries Rupert Birkin--Lawrence's alter ego--a thoroughly modern and enlightened young man who believes in ideal love based on passion, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context more books like this by Louis Menand, III This reissue of Menand's classic intellectual history of T.S. Eliot and the singular role he played in the rise of literary modernism features an updated Afterword by the author, as well as a detailed critical appraisal of the progression of Eliot's career as a poet and critic. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and ... see all copies from $2.42! new only from $2.42! \| SVS
9	Pragmatism: A Reader more books like this by Louis Menand, III Pragmatism has been called America's only major contribution to philosophy. But since its birth was announced a century ago in 1898 by William James, pragmatism has played a vital role in almost every area of American intellectual and cultural life, inspiring judges, educators, politicians, poets, and social prophets.Now the major texts of ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $10.09! \| first editions \| SVS
10	America in Theory more books like this by Leslie Cohen Berlowitz (Editor), Louis Menand, III (Editor), Professor Denis Donoghue (Editor) The appeal to a shared sense of origins and national purpose is part of the rhetoric of American life. Every new item on the social agenda--from the New Deal, to the Space Program, to affirmative action--has attempted to justify itself as an expression of American ideals. But the historical source of "the American experience" is a matter of ... see all copies from $2.89! new only from $3.68! \| first editions
11	The Best American Essays 2004 more books like this by Robert Atwan (Editor), Louis Menand, III (Editor) Louis Menand (who contributes an introduction called "Voices") has chosen an array of 20 essayists from many publications. Writers include Oliver Sacks, Luc Sante, Cynthia Zarin, Anne Fadiman, Rick Moody, Laura Hillenbrand, and Tim Judah, with work from The American Scholar, Granta, Artforum, Harper's, and (of course) The New Yorker, which has a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
12	Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context more books like this by Professor T S Eliot, Louis Menand, III Most analyses of T. S. Eliot's work focus primarily on his identification with the literary values of the modernist movement. In this study, however, Louis Menand also examines the crisis in literature that produced the entire modernist movement, and argues that the literary values of the nineteenth century became the problems of the twentieth ... see all copies from $21.98! first editions
13 view cover	Modernism and the New Criticism more books like this by A Walton Litz (Editor), Louis Menand, III (Editor), Professor Lawrence Rainey (Editor) This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, ... see all copies from $42.30! new only from $42.30!
14 view cover	El Club de los Metafisicos more books like this by Louis Menand, III Este fascinante y detallado ensayo sobre la historia de las ideas enNorteamerica nos ayuda a entender hoy el pensamiento y los comportamientos de lanacion que marca la pauta del mundo occidental y capitalista. Desde la Guerra deSecesion americana hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial se forman, en el pais maspoderoso del mundo, ciertos conceptos ... see all copies from $25.54! new only from $53.90!
15 view cover	Autobiography and Recollections of Incidents Connected with Horticultural Affairs: From 1807 Up to 1892, with Portrait and Allegorical Figures (1892) by Louis Menand, III see all copies from $19.03! new only from $19.03! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University more books like this by Louis Menand, III see all copies from $8.00!
17 view cover	Camb Hist of Literary Criticism V7 more books like this by A Walton Litz (Editor), Louis Menand, III (Editor), Professor Lawrence Rainey (Editor) This volume of The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism provides a thorough account of the critical tradition emerging with the modernist and avant-garde writers of the early twentieth century (Eliot, Pound, Stein, Yeats), continuing with the New Critics (Richards, Empson, Burke, Winters), and feeding into the influential work of Leavis, ... see all copies from $133.09! new only from $133.09!

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