Metaphysical Club

A riveting, original book about the creation of the modern American mind.

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‘Zestfully good, urbane and original, “The Metaphysical Club” enlivens virtually everything it touches, and on its frequent diversions it touches many things: natural selection and racism; probability distributions and disputed wills; the Dartmouth case and academic freedom. Anybody interested in modern America will find rewards aplenty.’ Economist
‘Brilliant…Menand brings rare common sense and graceful, witty prose to his richly nuanced reading of American intellectual history – a story that takes in (to name only a few of the other players) Emerson, Hegel, Kant, the second Great Awakening, probability theory, the nebular hypothesis, the Pullman strike, academic freedom and the ever-present issue of race.’ New York Review of Books
‘A hugely ambitious, unmistakably brilliant intellectual history, nothing less than an explanation of the social historical, economic and spiritual forces that caused American thinking to change radically…A landmark work of scholarship and a popular history of profound sweeping change of enormous worth.’ New York Times