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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America » (Reprint)
Authors: Louis Menand
ISBN-13: 9780374528492, ISBN-10: 0374528497
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: Reprint
Author Biography: Louis Menand
Louis Menand is a professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a staff writer at The New Yorker, and has been a contributing editor of The New York Review of Books since 1994. He is the author of Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and His Context and the editor of The Future of Academic Freedom and Pragmatism: A Reader.
Book Synopsis
The Metaphysical Club tells the story of the creation of ideas and values that changed the way Americans think and the way they live.
Joan Didion
Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club is brilliant, illuminating, necessary.
Table of Contents
| Preface | ix | |
| Part 1 | ||
| 1 | The Politics of Slavery | 3 |
| 2 | The Abolitionist | 23 |
| 3 | The Wilderness and After | 49 |
| Part 2 | ||
| 4 | The Man of Two Minds | 73 |
| 5 | Agassiz | 97 |
| 6 | Brazil | 117 |
| Part 3 | ||
| 7 | The Peirces | 151 |
| 8 | The Law of Errors | 177 |
| 9 | The Metaphysical Club | 201 |
| Part 4 | ||
| 10 | Burlington | 235 |
| 11 | Baltimore | 255 |
| 12 | Chicago | 285 |
| Part 5 | ||
| 13 | Pragmatisms | 337 |
| 14 | Pluralisms | 377 |
| 15 | Freedoms | 409 |
| Epilogue | 435 | |
| Acknowledgments | 443 | |
| Notes | 447 | |
| Works Cited | 499 | |
| Index | 521 |
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