About this title: 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2002-04-10
ISBN-13:9780374528492ISBN:0374528497
Description: Good. Softcover with light edgewear. There are several small spots on the outer page edges. They do not effect the text. No spine creasing. Text clean and bright. read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Very slight cover and edgewear. No spine creasing. Pages unmarked, bright and tight except for remainder mark on top edge. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 568 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. New York,
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780374528492ISBN:0374528497
Description: Fine/No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0374528497 2002--------Third Printing--Winner of the Pulitzer Prize---Keywords: AMERICAN HISTORY UNITED STATES_INTELLECTUAL LIFE_20TH-CENTURY METAPHYSICS_HISTORY------Fine Condition Trade Paperback----No Dust Jacket----No Tears----No Creases to Covers---No Reading Is Creases to Spine---Superficial Edge Wear------Page Edges Clean and Unsoiled--No Added Writing, Notes or Underlining of Text----No Previous Owners Name--Not Ex-Library Copy----Not Book Club ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2002-04-10
ISBN-13:9780374528492ISBN:0374528497
Description: New. Paperback. Enjoyable reading copy for your personal pleasure. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780374528492ISBN:0374528497
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Mixing history, biography and the history of ideas, Menand shows how Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Peirce and John Dewey changed the very way we think. Menand is a staff writer for The New Yorker, and he writes with the grace and lucidity we associate with that magazine; his is a book that expounds abstruse matters but is as readable as a good novel. Joan Didion called the it "brilliant, illuminating, necessary. " 546 pages. --------------- ... read more
Description: Fine. Excellent condition. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Minor shelfwear. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Edition: Number Line 5 7 9 10 8 6
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780374528492ISBN:0374528497
Description: Very Good. 546 Pages. Measures: 5-1/4" x 8-1/4" Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. The spine is not creased. Not an Ex-library book. Colorfully illustrated cover. Includes numerous photographs, Preface, 15 Chapters, Epilogue, Notes, Index, and a photograph with brief biography of the author. read more
Description: Very Good. Tidy underlining on 9 pages (in the beginning) otherwise clean, bright, square, tight, very reliable shipper(shelf#24) read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780965332958ISBN:0965332950
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. xii, 546 pp., illus., biblio., index; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. 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 ... read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. BRAND NEW. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 568 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"I thought this book was thought-provoking and, overall, fantastic. It has given me a new perspective on American History and thought, and I really enjoyed how Menand was able to contextualize the Pragmatist philosophy within wider social and intellectual developments of the era. It was a delight to see how all the different threads of thought came together, and also to see how the experiences of each of the main players (Holmes, James, Pierce, and Dewey) informed their approaches to life and philosophy. It took a few chapters for me to really get hooked by the book, but I am sure glad that I stuck with it. I highly recommend it."
"It is a narrative compilation of intellectual biographies of the people, their politics, and profound ideas that formed the bedrock of the American philosophy influencing the decisions of the nation's power elite. It begins with a discussion to the politics of slavery leading to the Civil War and ends with the imposition of Jim Crow at the time of the First World War but it is not a book about the African in America; the chained and blind folded elephant in the room. Louis Menand has written a book about the birth of fundamental guiding philosophies that came to define this vast nation. He reports the development of ideas and how those ideas influenced and gave birth to the major ivy league institutions from which the nations leadership has always been derived; in particular Harvard and Chicago Universities. There are telling portraits of some of America's greatest thinkers among them -- Oliver Wendell Holms Jr., William James, Alain Locke, Jane Addams - their ideas changed the way Americans thought. To be sure some of the ideas supposedly brilliant people espoused in those times were completely stupid and amazingly they didn't see it. Clearly the small world of educated power elite also bred canny ignorance and sophisticated intellectual overindulgence. The intellectual intricacies endlessly spiral into complex discussions and dissertations on pragmatism and American culture but you have to realize the leadership of government in America today is the fruit of past thinking; taught at institutions like Harvard and Chicago University. The Metaphysical Club is therefore a mirror on the subtle and serious consequences of American thinking."
"Story of the foundation of the philosophy known as Pragmatism in America. Menand looks at the lives and writings of Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr, William James, Charles Peirce, and John Dewey to show the development of this school of thought. Very interesting insights as to how events such as the Civil War really changed the way these philosophers thought. It was truly a time of transformation of everything--including American thought. Heavy read, but well worth it!"
"This book was a decent account of 19th Century American thought, though I would have preferred to see more discussion of Walt Whitman's role and maybe a little more on Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Dewey. But it's definitely a good introduction to pragmatism and the role it once played in this country and might still play today. The author also could have tied these thinkers to more contemporary pragmatists such as Richard Rorty, but it's still a good read."
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