Author: Cornelius Conway FeltonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Addresses at the Inauguration of Cornelius Conway Felton, LL. D., as President of Harvard College, and at the Festival of the Alumni, Thursday, July 19, 1860
Author: Cornelius Conway FeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The Metaphysical Club
Author: Louis MenandPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374706387
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
The Metaphysical Club is the winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. A national bestseller and "hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant" (Janet Maslin, New York Times) book about the creation of modern American thought. 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. future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; 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 deps 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 Civil War and s in 1919 with Justice Holmes's dissenting opinion in the case of U.S. v. Abrams-the basis for the constitutional law of free speech. The first four sections of the book focus on Holmes, James, Peirce, and their intellectual heir, John Dewey. The last section discusses some of the fundamental twentieth-century ideas they are associated with. This is a book about a way of thinking that changed American life.
Memoir of Daniel Treadwell
Author: Morrill WymanCatalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385312760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590
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The Battle of the Classics
Author: Eric AdlerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197518796
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
These are troubling days for the humanities. In response, a recent proliferation of works defending the humanities has emerged. But, taken together, what are these works really saying, and how persuasive do they prove? The Battle of the Classics demonstrates the crucial downsides of contemporary apologetics for the humanities and presents in its place a historically informed case for a different approach to rescuing the humanistic disciplines in higher education. It reopens the passionate debates about the classics that took place in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America as a springboard for crafting a novel foundation for the humanistic tradition. Eric Adler demonstrates that current defenses of the humanities rely on the humanistic disciplines as inculcators of certain poorly defined skills such as "critical thinking." It criticizes this conventional approach, contending that humanists cannot hope to save their disciplines without arguing in favor of particular humanities content. As the uninspired defenses of the classical humanities in the late nineteenth century prove, instrumental apologetics are bound to fail. All the same, the book shows that proponents of the Great Books favor a curriculum that is too intellectually narrow for the twenty-first century. The Battle of the Classics thus lays out a substance-based approach to undergraduate education that will revive the humanities, even as it steers clear of overreliance on the Western canon. The book envisions a global humanities based on the examination of masterworks from manifold cultures as the heart of an intellectually and morally sound education.
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts
Author: William Richard CutterPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Alphabetic Catalogue of the English Books in the Circulating Department of the Cleveland Public Library. Authors, Titles and Subjects
Author: Cleveland Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1434
Book Description
Anonyms
Author: William CushingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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