Obama & the Legacy of Pragmatic American Metaphysics

[Bekah]

The Metaphysical Club was just an excellent book -  one of the best books I read in whatever year I read it.   A friend was disappointed because it's not a philosophy book - it's not supposed to be that.  It's a history book about the idea of Pragmatism as developed by Charles Pierce,  William James,  Oliver Wendall Holmes and John Dewey.  Louis Menand writes beautifully -  I really do recommend this book if you're at all interested in the subject. 

Bekah


On Mar 28, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Michael Bailey wrote:

>> we are a Great Lotion, both in form and delivery, our aerial ways burn
>> bright across the sky so that all peoples of this world might not wake with
>> a sad whimper, but a oh baby ba-yay-ang.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Lotion:   http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p40114
> 
> just yesterday I got to the story of John Dewey in Louis Menand's
> wonderful book, _The Metaphysical Club_ (sounds like a sandwich...not
> that there's anything wrong with that)
> 
> My friend a long time ago wrote a song called "Hang down your head
> John Dewey" but in reality it seems like he has a lot to be thanked
> for.
> 
> sort of an American Bertrand Russell, at least in terms of being
> famous for being a philosopher and staying active into his 90s
> 
> trying to think of anybody today famous for that...