The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Monday, October 12th, 2009 at
2:28 am
Tagged with: America • Club • Ideas • Metaphysical • Story
Filed under: Metaphysics
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This book is terrible. The author gets hung up on details of minor characters lives and never really make his point. Save your money and avoid it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anyone who praises this book has never read it. Those who say they read it and liked it are lying through their teeth. Menand tries to explain science, and mathematics, about which he knows very little and the results are a mess. Over-written, poorly edited and not surprisingly it is available for $10 because no one in his right mind would pay full price for this junk.
Rating: 1 / 5
Anyone bold enough to write a review of Pragmaticism, should know how to spell Peirce.
Rating: 3 / 5
I guess this won the Pulitzer for the most comprehensive theory. There is too much unnecessary information in this book. This was like reading the transcript of your grandfather’s latest 19 hour talking spree on the civil war and the post civil war era. ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz!!! If you like to know about every nook n’ cranny about the a few few characters from the civil war and the post civil war era mixed with a thick layer of philosophy then this is your book. But don’t take my word for it. This was a required reading for a Master’s class.
Rating: 2 / 5
One star is strange because the book is an enlightening one. However one sentence, p. 375, makes you wonder if the author understands what he himself narrates, a story that begins under the spell of the Civil war: “Pragmatism explains everything about ideas except why a person would be willing to die for one”. A case of divided brain? Or maybe of belief that writing an history of ideas does not necessitate reading those who produced those ideas? Read “The will to believe”, Mr Menand !
Rating: 1 / 5