- Paperback: 436 pages
- Publisher: Indiana University Press; 2Rev Ed edition (1 Jun 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0253211611
- ISBN-13: 978-0253211613
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 843,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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O[Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable.O NThe New York Review of Books O ... a fine biography.OENThe New York Times Book Review O... an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science.O NPublishers Weekly In this expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of PeirceOs thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.
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Charles Sanders Peirce was born in September 1839 and died five months before the guns of August 1914. He is perhaps the most important mind the United States has ever produced. He made significant contributions throughout his life as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, geodesist, surveyor, cartographer, a historian of science, a lifelong student of medicine, and, above all, a philosopher, whose special fields were logic and semiotics. He is widely credited with being the founder of pragmatism. In terms of his importance as a philosopher and a scientist, he has been compared to Plato and Aristotle. He himself intended 'to make a philosophy like that of Aristotle.' In this edition, Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.'Brent...has given us a full and compelling account of Peirce's troubled career and a wealth of persuasive arguments and plausible inferences (what Peirce called 'abductions') to help explain it.' - "Science". 'Joseph Brent's splendid biography of Charles S Peirce (1839ETH1914) dispels much of the mystery that has surrounded the difficult life and career of America's greatest philosopher.' - "American Historical Review". 'This outstanding book, the first full-scale biography of Peirce, illuminates both Peirce's life and his philosophy.' - "Library Journal". '...an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science.' - "Publishers Weekly".'...a forceful and beautifully written account of the life and work of Peirce...places the demonic aspects of Peirce's personality in their proper social and psychological contexts.' - "Semiotica. 'Brent's book is a great example of biographical writing. The final essay, 'The Wasp in the Bottle,' is astonishingly good, a masterpiece.' - "Charles Hartshorne".
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains a great deal of information on the life of a sadly-neglected philosopher; one of the most brilliant Americans of the 19th century. Dr. Brent has a wonderful, at times even poetic, writing style, and he has "lived" with Peirce so long that he has excellent insight into the man behind the philosophy. Struggling through Peirce in a class? This book may not make his philosophy "easy"--but it will make him more human.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very good biography of an overlooked great American thinker. Mr. Brent does a good job of recounting the life of Peirce without getting bogged down in the details of Peirce's philosophy which is well documented in several other books. The book also attempts to analyze Peirce's behavoir and why he failed as an academic, something that desperately needed to be done. As Peirce's reputation inevitatably increases, this biography will become a classic reference to this very interesting American.
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9 April 1999
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This is a very good biography of an overlooked great American thinker. Mr. Brent does a good job of recounting the life of Peirce without getting bogged down in the details of Peirce's philosophy which is well documented in several other books. The book also attempts to analyze Peirce's behavoir and why he failed as an academic, something that desperately needed to be done. As Peirce's reputation inevitatably increases, this biography will become a classic reference to this very interesting American.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Terrific insight into the man behind the philosophy
12 May 1999
Format:Paperback
This book contains a great deal of information on the life of a sadly-neglected philosopher; one of the most brilliant Americans of the 19th century. Dr. Brent has a wonderful, at times even poetic, writing style, and he has "lived" with Peirce so long that he has excellent insight into the man behind the philosophy. Struggling through Peirce in a class? This book may not make his philosophy "easy"--but it will make him more human.
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