The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand - Music - HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO - 9781665179508 - December 19, 2019
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The Metaphysical Club

Louis Menand

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The Metaphysical Club

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 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.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released December 19, 2019
ISBN13 9781665179508
Label HIGHBRIDGE AUDIO
Dimensions 150 g   (Weight (estimated))

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