ISBN10: 0374528497, ISBN13: 9780374528492, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002-04-10, Gordonsville, VA] Softcover Language: ENG
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux., Date: 2002. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Softcover 2002 edition. Text and covers in very good condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (546 pages). 2002. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0374528497 9780374528492 [US]

Farrar Straus & Giroux, Date: 2002. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 546 pages. 8.50x5.25x1.50 inches. 2002. Farrar Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374528497 9780374528492 [GB]

ISBN10: 0374528497, ISBN13: 9780374528492, [publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York] Softcover Paperback. The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History.A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) 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 Wendell Holmes Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea. Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent-- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The ...
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The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the Date: 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 Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and the founder of semiotics. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months. No records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea -- an idea about ideas. This book is the story of that idea.Holmes, James, and Peirce all believed that ideas are not things "out there" waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent -- like knives and forks and microchips -- to make their way in the world. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals -- that ideas are social. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely depent -- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. And they thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability.The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the Civil War and ...

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