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Louis Menand - June 14, 2001

The Metaphysical Club

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THE METAPHYSICAL CLUB

Louis Menand
Historian; Columnist, The New Yorker; Author, The Metaphysical Club

Founded in 1872, The Metaphysical Club - subject of Louis Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning history - met for less than a year, but it was nonetheless responsible for coining the term "pragmatism" and shaping this major American contribution to philosophy. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce all stroll across the stage as Menand sets the scene.

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