It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. It begins with the Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmess dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., founder of modern jurisprudence William James, the father of modern American psychology and show more. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. The Metaphysical Club is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas.

And they thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability. The Metaphysical Club is a book about a conversation group formed in 1872 that included American philosophers Oliver Wendell Holmes and John Dewey. A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own but are entirely dependent-like germs-on their human carriers and environment. They thought that ideas are produced not by individuals, but by groups of individuals-that ideas are social. Menand brings rare common sense and graceful, witty prose to his richly nuanced reading of American. 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. The Metaphysical Club By LOUIS MENAND Reviewed by JEAN STROUSE ' Brilliant. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea-an idea about ideas. The Club was probably in existence for about nine months.

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.

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