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In The Long March, Roger Kimball, the author of Tenured Radicals, shows how the ""cultural revolution"" of the 1960s and '70s took hold in America, lodging in our hearts and minds, and affecting our innermost assumptions about what counts as the good life. Kimball believes that the counterculture transformed high culture as well as our everyday life in terms of attitudes toward self and country, sex and drugs, and manners and morality. Believing that this dramatic change ""cannot be understood apart from the seductive personalities who articulated its goals,"" he intersperses his argument with

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"The Civil War made America a modern nation, unleashing forces of industrialism and expansion that had been kept in check for decades by the quarrel over slavery. But the war also discredited the ideas and beliefs of the era that preceded it. The Civil War swept away the slave civilization of the South, but almost the whole intellectual culture of the North went with it. It took nearly half a century for Americans to develop a set of ideas, a way of thinking, that would help them cope with the conditions of modern life. That struggle is the subject of this book." "The story told in The Metaphysical Club runs through the lives of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., a Civil War hero who became the dominant legal thinker of his time; his best friend as a young man, William James, son of an eccentric moral philosopher, brother of a great novelist, and the father of modern psychology in America; and the brilliant and troubled logician, scientist, and founder of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce. Together they belonged to an informal discussion group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872 and called itself the Metaphysical Club. The club was probably in existence for only nine months, and no records were kept. The one thing we know that came out of it was an idea - an idea about ideas, about the role beliefs play in people's lives. This idea informs the writings of these three thinkers, and the work of the fourth figure in the book, John Dewey - student of Peirce, friend and ally of James, admirer of Holmes." "The Metaphysical Club begins with the Civil War and ends in 1919 with the Supreme Court's decision in U.S. v. Abrams, the basis for the modern law of free speech. It tells the story of the creation of ideas and values that changed the way Americans think and the way they live."--Jacket

Metaphysics --- Philosophy, American --- Intellectuals --- Pragmatism --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie américaine --- Intellectuels --- Pragmatisme --- History --- Histoire --- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, --- James, William, --- Peirce, Charles S. --- Dewey, John, --- Cambridge (Mass.) --- United States --- Etats-Unis --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- National characteristics, American --- Social conditions --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, --- Métaphysique --- Philosophie américaine --- #KVHA:American Studies --- #KVHA:Filosofie; Verenigde Staten --- Metaphysics - History - 20th century --- Intellectuals - United States - History - 20th century --- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, - Jr., - 1841-1935 --- James, William, - 1842-1910 --- Peirce, Charles Sanders, - 1839-1914 --- Dewey, John, - 1859-1952 --- United States - Intellectual life - 20th century --- United States - Social conditions - 20th century --- Cambridge (Mass.) - Intellectual life - 20th century --- Famous Persons. --- History, 19th Century. --- National characteristics, American. --- Social Conditions. --- United States.