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.
What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, the death drive, and its adversary eros.
Louis Menand's intellectual history discusses the ideas that emerged from the meetings of The Metaphysical Club, an informal group out of late nineteenth-century Massachusetts, whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, and Charles Sanders Peirce. The groups unrecorded discussions have indirectly changed the American way of ...
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 ...
Polymath and critic Louis Menand's collection of essays covers, among other topics, Maya Lin's Vietnam memorial, popular music, Norman Mailer, and sex.
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
Nine leading academics consider the problems confronting the American university in terms of the future of academic freedom. Whom and what does academic freedom protect? Are restrictions on hate speech compatible with the academic freedom of inquiry? Must academic freedom have epistemological foundations, or should it be reconceived as an ethical ...
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, ...
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 ...
This collection of specially commissioned essays discusses the revival of the "American myth" and examines various aspects of the idea of the "American experience" - a shared sense of origins and national direction.
Like his critically acclaimed bestseller, "The Metaphysical Club, American Studies" is intellectual and cultural history at its best: game and detached, with a strong curiosity about the political underpinnings of ideas and about the reasons successful ideas insinuate themselves into the culture at large. Unabridged. 5 CDs.
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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