The Metaphysical Club
- List Price: $30.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Publish date: 05/01/2001
The "idea about ideas" is that ideas are not things "out there" somewhere waiting to be discovered, but are instruments people invent and use, such as knives and forks and microchips, to make their way in the world. They are not produced by individuals; they are produced by groups of individuals. They do not develop according to some inner logic of their own, but are entirely dependent -- like germs -- on their human carriers and environment. They are provisional responses to circumstances, and their survival depends not on their immutability, but on their adaptability.
The Metaphysical Club is written in this idea's spirit and is an utterly absorbing narrative of personality and social history -- as Alan Ryan wrote in The New York Review of Books, The Metaphysical Club is "something very like a history of the American mind at work."
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