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.

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by ...

The 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history went to Louis Menand’s The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. The book, highly praised in the press for its scholarship, is an amusingly written account of the philosophy named “pragmatism.” It is popular history, but that is what the Pulitzer Prize is for.

Menand brings pragmatists of the Metaphysical Club to life ...

Cultural historian Louis Menand lectured Feb. 12 on the three moments when pragmatism, louis menand the metaphysical club a quintessentially American philosophy that he defined as an idea about ideas, gained ascendancy in American intellectual life. Unfortunately, according to Menand, the third and last moment has just passed. ... Menand is the author of “The Metaphysical Club ...

Summary and reviews of The Metaphysical Club by Louis Menand

The story told in The Metaphysical Club runs through the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Civil War hero who became the dominant legal thinker of his time; his best friend as a young man, William James, son of an eccentric moral philosopher, brother of a great novelist, and the father of modern psychology in America; and the brilliant and troubled logician, scientist, and founder of ...

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The Metaphysical Club Louis Menand, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $30 (546p) ISBN 978-0-374-19963-0. More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. AMERICAN STUDIES; THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB…

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Louis Menand - Wikipedia

Louis Menand (/ ˈ l uː i m ə ˈ n ɑː n d /; born January 21, 1952) is an American critic, essayist, and professor, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club (2001), an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America.

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Review Consensus: Not quite a consensus, but most very enthusiastic -- especially louis menand the metaphysical club about Menand's presentation and writing From the Reviews: "What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate of ideas or a cultural sensibility, embodying it in a character, and moving his characters ...

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