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发表于2024-11-22
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A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind. 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. And they thought that the survival of any idea depends not on its immutability but on its adaptability. 'The Metaphysical Club' is written in the spirit of this idea about ideas. It is not a history of philosophy but an absorbing narrative about personalities and social history, a story about America. It begins with the American Civil War and ends with World War I. This is a book about the evolution of the American mind during the crucial period that formed the world we now inhabit.
路易斯·梅南(Louis M enand)的《形而上學俱樂部》(THE METAPHYSI-CAL CLUB)記錄的是1872年在麻省劍橋(這裏有著名的哈佛大學)齣現的一個哲學小團體,其中包括日後成為20世紀美國哲學代錶的詹姆斯、皮爾斯和杜威。作者描述時相當聰明地將嚴肅的學院哲學、充滿樂趣的傳記,與美國曆史相貫穿。 是部有趣的哲學曆史書.
文筆太好,對個性與觀念的相互成就有深刻洞察力。三年前讀的中文版,如今再讀英文版,有兩個段子我始終無法忘懷,一個是威廉詹姆士反反復復決定不下退休,糾結癥晚期;另一個還是威廉詹姆士跟著艾裏奧特做實驗時乾的活是給自己做尿驗,一輩子對實驗避之不及。噗哈哈,我好喜歡詹姆士這朵奇男子。。。
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評分陸陸續續終於讀完瞭。如果要給Cambridge或者哈佛一個禮物,Menand和他的主人公一起給予瞭最好的禮物。在戰爭的廢墟上,是帶著戰爭傷疤的知識分子重新給瞭一個國傢前進的動力。有情有義也有理。
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1. The Metaphysical Club是Pierce在John Hopkins University成立的; 2. 这本书还花了大量的篇幅记录著名的最高法院大法官Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr;
評分1. The Metaphysical Club是Pierce在John Hopkins University成立的; 2. 这本书还花了大量的篇幅记录著名的最高法院大法官Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr;
評分1. The Metaphysical Club是Pierce在John Hopkins University成立的; 2. 这本书还花了大量的篇幅记录著名的最高法院大法官Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr;
評分1. The Metaphysical Club是Pierce在John Hopkins University成立的; 2. 这本书还花了大量的篇幅记录著名的最高法院大法官Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr;
評分1. The Metaphysical Club是Pierce在John Hopkins University成立的; 2. 这本书还花了大量的篇幅记录著名的最高法院大法官Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr;
The Metaphysical Club pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024