The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America

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The Metaphysical Club

Author	Louis Menand
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	2001
Media type	Print
Pages	384
ISBN	0-374-19963-9

The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America is a 2001 book by Louis Menand, an American writer and legal scholar, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History. The book recounts the lives and intellectual work of the handful of thinkers primarily responsible for the philosophical concept of pragmatism, a principal feature of American philosophical achievement: William James, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey. Pragmatism had a significant influence on modern thought, by, for example, spurring movements in legal thought such as legal realism.