| Description |
1 audio file (approximately 7 hr.) : digital. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| Access |
Access restricted to subscribing institutions. |
| Performer |
Read by Henry Leyva. |
| Note |
Abridged. |
| Form |
Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. |
| Summary |
Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid--part history, part biography, part philosophy--consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months. Yet its impact upon American intellectual life remains incalculable. Louis Menand masterfully weaves pivotal late 19th-and early 20th-century events, colorful biographical anecdotes, and abstract ideas into a narrative whole that both entralls and enlightens. The Metaphysical Club is a compellingly vital account of how the cluster of ideas that came to be called pragmatism was forged from the searing experiences of its progenitors' lives. Here are Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey, all of them giants of American thought made colloquially accessible both as human beings and as intellects. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935.
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James, William, 1842-1910.
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Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
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Dewey, John, 1859-1952.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Metaphysics -- History -- 20th century.
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National characteristics, American.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Intellectuals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Leyva, Henry.
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| Other Form: |
Original 9781598871791 (OCoLC)ocn317491726 |
| ISBN |
9781598871791 |
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159887179X |
| Music No. |
Z10009323 Recorded Books |
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