An edition of His Glassy Essence (1998)

His Glassy Essence

An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce

1st ed.

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An edition of His Glassy Essence (1998)

His Glassy Essence

An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce

1st ed.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the most important and influential of the classical American philosophers, is credited as the inventor of the philosophical school of pragmatism. The scope and significance of his work have had a lasting effect not only in several fields of philosophy but also in mathematics, the history and philosophy of science, and the theory of signs, as well as in literary and cultural studies.

Inspired by his friendship and correspondence with the novelist Walker Percy, who himself was absorbed by the life and writings of Peirce, Ketner adopts a narrative strategy that lets Peirce tell his own early life story. He weaves the voluminous components of an intellectual biography that are scattered throughout Peirce's published and unpublished writings into a novelistic account that reads like a mystery.

Ketner offers satisfying explanations and convincing hypotheses for a number of intimate and controversial aspects of Peirce's eventful yet frustrated life, including his inability to find a permanent teaching position at any university, the ancestry of Peirce's wife Juliette and the source of his family's hostility toward her, and the previously unknown fact that Peirce actually had three wives instead of two.

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English
Pages
416

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Cover of: His Glassy Essence
His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy)
January 1999, Vanderbilt University Press
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: His Glassy Essence
His Glassy Essence: An Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce
1998, Vanderbilt University Press
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Preface
Letter from Boston
For signs and for seasons
In the beginning
Let there be light
Epilogue: method
Notes
References
Index.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-404) and index.
Largely in Charles S. Peirce's words, with additions by Kenneth Laine Ketner.

Published in
Nashville
Series
The Vanderbilt library of American philosophy

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
181, B
Library of Congress
B945.P44 A3 1998, B945.P44 K47 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 416 p. :
Number of pages
416

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL349624M
Internet Archive
hisglassyessence0000ketn
ISBN 10
0826513131
LCCN
98008886
OCLC/WorldCat
38286512
Library Thing
1625932
Goodreads
866095

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