Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition: A Life

by Joseph Brent

Book Overview

" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books

" . . . a fine biography." --The New York Times Book Review

". . . 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253211611
• ISBN13: 9780253211613
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Terrific insight into the man behind the philosophy

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.

Excellent

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.