The Metaphysical Club
by Louis Menand

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• Genres: history, philosophy, biography, politics, science, american, psychology
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Format: paperback, 560 pages
• Release date: February 1, 2010
• Author: Louis Menand
• ISBN: 9780007126903 (0007126905)
• Language: english
• Awards: Pulitzer Prize for History (2002), Francis Parkman Prize (2002), Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Nonfiction (2001)

About The Book

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, founder of modern jurisprudence; 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. They also thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability.

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