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The Real Metaphysical Club

Frank X. Ryan,Brian E. Butler,James A. Good
The Real Metaphysical Club Book PDF

Author : Frank X. Ryan,Brian E. Butler,James A. Good
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473260

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A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays. The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America’s distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand’s bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James—appear in the book, alongside other thinkers who were never in the Club. The Real Metaphysical Club tells the full story of how this influential group shifted the course of philosophy in America. In addition to pioneering pragmatism, the group explored radical empiricism and idealism, and formulated personalism and process philosophy, equally important developments. This volume contains the important writings dating from 1870 to 1885 by the real members of the Metaphysical Club. The first section centers on pragmatism and science; the second part collects writings of the lawyers; and the third part covers idealist and personalist philosophers. Many of these writings have never been reprinted before, and nothing like this impressive collection has ever been attempted. A general introduction provides a narrative history, and the editors’ three introductions to the volume’s sections vividly bring to life the intense meetings, sustained debates, and pioneering thought of the Metaphysical Club. Frank X. Ryan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Kent State University and the author of Seeing Together: Mind, Matter, and the Experimental Outlook of John Dewey and Arthur F. Bentley. Brian E. Butler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina Asheville and the author of The Democratic Constitution: Experimentalism and Interpretation. James A. Good is Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Business, and Economics Division at Lone Star College-North Harris. He is the coeditor (with John R. Shook) of John Dewey’s Philosophy of Spirit, with the 1897 Lecture on Hegel.

The Metaphysical Club

Louis Menand
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Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780374706388

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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 deps 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 s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life.

The Metaphysical Club

Louis Menand
The Metaphysical Club Book PDF

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007126903

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The Metaphysical Club was a group that met in Massachusetts, in 1872. The group believed that ideas are not things out there waiting to be discovered but are tools people invent to make their way in the world. This book is the story of that idea.

The Real Metaphysical Club

Frank X. Ryan,Brian E. Butler,James A. Good
The Real Metaphysical Club Book PDF

Author : Frank X. Ryan,Brian E. Butler,James A. Good
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438473253

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The Real Metaphysical Club by Frank X. Ryan,Brian E. Butler,James A. Good Pdf

A full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members’ philosophical writings and four critical essays. The Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America’s distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand’s bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members—Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James—appear in the book, alongside other thinkers who were never in the Club. The Real Metaphysical Club tells the full story of how this influential group shifted the course of philosophy in America. In addition to pioneering pragmatism, the group explored radical empiricism and idealism, and formulated personalism and process philosophy, equally important developments. This volume contains the important writings dating from 1870 to 1885 by the real members of the Metaphysical Club. The first section centers on pragmatism and science; the second part collects writings of the lawyers; and the third part covers idealist and personalist philosophers. Many of these writings have never been reprinted before, and nothing like this impressive collection has ever been attempted. A general introduction provides a narrative history, and the editors’ three introductions to the volume’s sections vividly bring to life the intense meetings, sustained debates, and pioneering thought of the Metaphysical Club. “The Real Metaphysical Club includes some very important thinkers that don’t always make it into anthologies of American philosophy. The period is also important. 1870 to 1885 is critical to the development of classical American philosophy. It precedes it and sets its direction. The book accomplishes its goal of giving the reader a sense of the period by arranging the works in a very interesting way. The readings and introduction are very readable and would be helpful to both graduate and undergraduate students as well as general readers interested in American Thought.” — James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University

The Free World

Louis Menand
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Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374722913

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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post "The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice One of The New York Times's 100 best books of 2021 | One of The Washington Post's 50 best nonfiction books of 2021 | A Mother Jones best book of 2021 In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand tells the story of American culture in the pivotal years from the end of World War II to Vietnam and shows how changing economic, technological, and social forces put their mark on creations of the mind. How did elitism and an anti-totalitarian skepticism of passion and ideology give way to a new sensibility defined by freewheeling experimentation and loving the Beatles? How was the ideal of “freedom” applied to causes that ranged from anti-communism and civil rights to radical acts of self-creation via art and even crime? With the wit and insight familiar to readers of The Metaphysical Club and his New Yorker essays, Menand takes us inside Hannah Arendt’s Manhattan, the Paris of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Merce Cunningham and John Cage’s residencies at North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and the Memphis studio where Sam Phillips and Elvis Presley created a new music for the American teenager. He examines the post war vogue for French existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, the rise of abstract expressionism and pop art, Allen Ginsberg’s friendship with Lionel Trilling, James Baldwin’s transformation into a Civil Right spokesman, Susan Sontag’s challenges to the New York Intellectuals, the defeat of obscenity laws, and the rise of the New Hollywood. Stressing the rich flow of ideas across the Atlantic, he also shows how Europeans played a vital role in promoting and influencing American art and entertainment. By the end of the Vietnam era, the American government had lost the moral prestige it enjoyed at the end of the Second World War, but America’s once-despised culture had become respected and adored. With unprecedented verve and range, this book explains how that happened.

Time of the Magicians

Wolfram Eilenberger
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Author : Wolfram Eilenberger
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525559689

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Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger Pdf

“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some performed too many intellectual conjuring tricks.” —Wall Street Journal A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is fresh for the protagonists of Time of the Magicians, each of whom finds himself at a crucial juncture. Benjamin is trying to flee his overbearing father and floundering in his academic career, living hand to mouth as a critic. Wittgenstein, by contrast, has dramatically decided to divest himself of the monumental fortune he stands to inherit, in search of spiritual clarity. Meanwhile, Heidegger, having managed to avoid combat in war by serving as a meteorologist, is carefully cultivating his career. Finally, Cassirer is working furiously on the margins of academia, applying himself to his writing and the possibility of a career at Hamburg University. The stage is set for a great intellectual drama, which will unfold across the next decade. The lives and ideas of this extraordinary philosophical quartet will converge as they become world historical figures. But as the Second World War looms on the horizon, their fates will be very different.

Genealogical Pragmatism

John J. Stuhr
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Author : John J. Stuhr
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-10-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438421544

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Drawing on the work of popular American writers, American philosophers, and Continental thinkers, this book provides a new interpretation of pragmatism and American philosophy.

I Wear the Black Hat

Chuck Klosterman
I Wear the Black Hat Book PDF

Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439184516

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I Wear the Black Hat by Chuck Klosterman Pdf

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman “offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero” (New York magazine). Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for The New York Times Magazine, has walked into the darkness. In I Wear the Black Hat, he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol—Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Black Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the Los Angeles Times notes: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture—and maybe even American morality.” I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism that’s instantly accessible and really, really funny.

Discovering Modernism

Louis Menand
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Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199774715

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Discovering Modernism by Louis Menand Pdf

When Discovering Modernism was first published, it shed new and welcome light on the birth of Modernism. 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. The new Afterword was adapted from Menand's critically lauded essay on Eliot in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume Seven: Modernism and the New Criticism. Menand shows how Eliot's early views on literary value and authenticity, and his later repudiation of those views, reflect the profound changes regarding the understanding of literature and its significance that occurred in the early part of the twentieth century. It will prove an eye-opening study for readers with an interest in the writings of T.S. Eliot and other luminaries of the Modernist era.

Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945

Malachi Haim Hacohen
Karl Popper The Formative Years 1902 1945 Book PDF

Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521890551

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Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945 by Malachi Haim Hacohen Pdf

This 2001 biography reassesses philosopher Karl Popper's life and works within the context of interwar Vienna.

The American Pragmatists

Cheryl Misak
The American Pragmatists Book PDF

Author : Cheryl Misak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199231201

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The American Pragmatists by Cheryl Misak Pdf

Presents a history of the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism from its inception in the Metaphysical Club (Cambridge, MA) of the 1870s to present.

Scientific Metaphysics

Don Ross,James Ladyman,Harold Kincaid
Scientific Metaphysics Book PDF

Author : Don Ross,James Ladyman,Harold Kincaid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199696499

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Scientific Metaphysics by Don Ross,James Ladyman,Harold Kincaid Pdf

Original essays by leading philosophers of science explore the question of whether metaphysics can and should be naturalised - conducted as part of natural science. They engage with a range of approaches and disciplines to argue that if metaphysics is to be capable of identifying objective truths, it must be continuous with and inspired by science.

The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time)

Louis Menand
The Marketplace of Ideas Reform and Resistance in the American University Issues of Our Time Book PDF

Author : Louis Menand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393062755

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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University (Issues of Our Time) by Louis Menand Pdf

Sparking a long-overdue debate about the future of American education, "The Marketplace of Ideas" examines traditional university institutions, assessing what is worth saving and what is not

The Future of Academic Freedom

Henry Reichman
The Future of Academic Freedom Book PDF

Author : Henry Reichman
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421428581

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The Future of Academic Freedom by Henry Reichman Pdf

The issues Reichman considers—which are the subjects of daily conversation on college and university campuses nationwide as well as in the media—will fascinate general readers, students, and scholars alike.

What Pragmatism Was

F. Thomas Burke
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Author : F. Thomas Burke
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253009548

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What Pragmatism Was by F. Thomas Burke Pdf

F. Thomas Burke examines the writings of William James and Charles S. Peirce to determine how the original "maxim of pragmatism" was understood differently by these two earliest pragmatists. Burke reconciles these differences by casting pragmatism as a philosophical stance that endorses distinctive conceptions of belief and meaning. In particular, a pragmatist conception of meaning should be understood as both inferentialist and operationalist in character. Burke unravels a complex early history of this philosophical tradition, discusses contemporary conceptions of pragmatism found in current US political discourse, and explores what this quintessentially American philosophy means today.