The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America - Louis Menand Audiobook
Language: EnglishKeywords:
1970s
Cambridge
Charles Sanders Peirce
John Dewey
Massachusetts
Oliver Wendell Holmes; William James
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Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: HighBridge
Release date: January 23, 2020
Duration: 17:26:53
The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. 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.
Between Reconstruction and WW II, U.S. law, politics, education and intellectual life gradually incorporated some big ideas. One involved the value of free speech, not as a natural right but as a social good. Another showed how what we think and believe may flow from what we desire and do, rather than vice versa. Another rejected absolutes in favor of experiments and experience, insisting (in Menand’s words) “that there is no one way that things must be.”
Together these ideas and their progeny are called pragmatism, a home-grown method for splitting differences that launched the American Century, and that has been generating a lot of academic interest again recently, as it first produced the doctrine of “cultural pluralism.”
Extraordinarily ambitious and compulsively readable, Menand’s elegant big book shows how pragmatism’s various ideas came together mainly through the work, talk and life experience of four men: Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes; William James, the Harvard-based philosopher, psychologist and all-around famous thinker (who popularized the word “pragmatism”); Charles Sanders Peirce, a brilliant, philandering, spendthrift philosopher (from whom James took the word); and John Dewey, for decades America’s foremost public intellectual.
Holmes, James and Peirce (with their Harvard friend Chauncey Wright) formed, in 1872, a discussion group called the Metaphysical Club. The chapters these men inspire, which cover Holmes’s Civil War duty and Dewey’s tenure at the University of Chicago and more, move fluidly and cogently between works and personalities, between the currents of thought and their fruits in action.
Menand interweaves Civil War battles; New England abolitionism; Darwin and his arrogant opponents; the Pullman strike of 1894; the Harlem Renaissance; G.W.F. Hegel; the Rockefellers; Eugene Debs; W.E.B. du Bois; the rise of the academic fields now called anthropology, philosophy, psychology, sociology and social work; and the history of (among other institutions) Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Columbia and the University of Vermont.
The wealth of anecdotes, local exegeses and political asides will leave readers astonished. And the passionately maintained disinterest of the carefully constructed sentences and chapters comes amazingly close to that critical Holy Grail: transparency. Over its narrative arc and the arc of its subjects’ lives, the book slowly and surely makes the ideas of another era available and usable to our own.
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| 01 - Preface.mp3 4.47 MBs | |
| 02 - Paty 1 - Chapter 1.mp3 21.56 MBs | |
| 03 - Part 1 - Chapter 2.mp3 27.82 MBs | |
| 04 - Part 1 - Chapter 3.mp3 22.49 MBs | |
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This post has 13 comments with rating of 5/5
August 8th, 2021
Many, many thanks– have been hoping for this a very long time! You are one of the all time great uploaders!
August 8th, 2021
Menand is great. Perhaps a bit verbose, but overall maybe not quite as verbose as certain Roman god emperors who shall remain nameless.
August 8th, 2021
Thanks a lot as always, jodindy.
August 8th, 2021
SSafe - You mean Augustus, of course. I know, right? Yakety yak (don’t talk back) - all roads lead to a migraine. As for Claudius, like Demosthenes, we’ve had to pebble up his pie hole, to staunch the violent flow of voluble verbs.
(On an unrelated, you should see The Green Knight most rapidly & with hurried alacrity.)
Pragmatic thanks, jo, from a philandering, spendthrift philosopher.
August 8th, 2021
@caesar - Our local arts and farts cinema is playing it. I shall, post-haste with enthusiasm zeal and swiftness, head to the local Zoopraxiscope.
August 8th, 2021
@caesar - ADDENDUM: I am currently assisting with keeping alive JRR’s translation for those that are interested in the verdant k’nigit.
https://educationaudio.org/audio-books/sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight-j-r-r-tolkien/
August 8th, 2021
Now you’re Tolkien. Make sure to don your HAZMAT ™ when you’re movie-bound. And consume all popping corn beforehand, and in a responsible. Thank you for your inattention.
August 8th, 2021
JRR JRR Binks thanks you for your supportsa
August 8th, 2021
Just to be ssafe.
You know abt the theory that the execrated Jar Jar was not the harmless halfwit we imagined, but one of the greatest villains in the galaxy? He balefully blindsided us with his bumbling buffoonery. He was almost as evil as George Lucas.
August 8th, 2021
The last movie would have been SO MUCH better if the reveal had not been the return of old Palps — but had revealed it was all being manipulated by Sith Lord JJB! aka Darth Plageuis the Wisesa.
August 11th, 2021
Thanks so much for this! Hopefully someone will upload his new book “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War” soon :-)
February 2nd, 2023
Please seed. I just got the book, today
February 2nd, 2023
Thank you, you’re the best
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