Louis Menand is Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English at Harvard. He is the author of The Metaphysical Club (2001), a history of American intellectual and philosophical life in the 19th and 20th centuries, …
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Faculty Book: Louis Menand . News; All News; Faculty Book: Louis Menand ; Louis Menand . The Metaphysical Club (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, 560pp.). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History, this book begins with the Civil War and ends in 1919 with the Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Abrams, the basis for the modern law of free speech.Menand tells the story of the creation of ideas and ...
Faculty Book: Louis Menand . News; All News; Faculty Book: Louis Menand ; Louis Menand. American Studies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 306 pp.) Hot on the heels of Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning intellectual history, The Metaphysical Club, is this collection of short essays penned for such publications as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and Artforum.
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The subject matter and even the title of Menand's book are a little forbidding, but trust me: this is fascinating reading. Menand, a New Yorker staff writer and a professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, takes us into Civil War battles with Holmes, on a Brazilian expedition with James, into the chaotic, self-destructive life of Peirce, and through the brutal Pullman ...
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Louis Menand is a Professor of English at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has also taught at Princeton, Columbia. and the University of Virginia the graduates by louis menand School of Law. He has been Contributing Editor of The New York Review of Books …
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Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryA riveting, original book about the creation of the graduates by louis menand modern American thought.The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Well Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and ...
“The Future of Academic Freedom”
The notion of academic freedom has always the graduates by louis menand been problematic, says Louis Menand. It is inherently so."Like any ideal concept,” he writes,"it requires a willing suspension of disbelief in order ...
Who is Louis Menand? | Magazine | The Harvard Crimson
Oct 20, 2011 · Louis Menand was born in Syracuse, New York in 1952, and grew up near Boston, in Bradford, Mass. He attended Brooks, a private preparatory school, where he contributed to …
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Louis Menand. American Studies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 306 pp.) Hot on the heels of Menand's Pulitzer Prize-winning intellectual history, The Metaphysical Club, is this collection of short essays penned for such publications as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and Artforum.The volume, an idiosyncratic reading of American intellectual history full of ...
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