Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America - Brossura

Menand, Louis

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374528497 ISBN 13: 9780374528492

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002

Riassunto

Written in the spirit of an idea about ideas, a narrative about personalities and American history is told through the story of an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1872 to talk about ideas and whose members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. Reprint.

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L'autore:

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.

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Book by Menand Louis

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0374528497
• ISBN 13: 9780374528492
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 546