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Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 99128 KB). |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Title from: Title details screen. |
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Abridged. |
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Duration: 6:53:50. |
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Read by Henry Leyva. |
| 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. |
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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. -- Sound recordings.
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National characteristics, American. -- Sound recordings.
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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. -- Sound recordings.
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Leyva, Henry.
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| ISBN |
9781598871791 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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159887179X (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book) |
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