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Enemies of Certitude.(Review)
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, by Louis Menand (Farrar, Straus, 546 pp., $27)
The Sixties generation of student radicals, deeply traumatized by the experience of a morally questionable-and, it seemed, unwinnable-war, upended their parents' America and created a radically different one. In this new America, all ancient values would be relativized and the future thrown open to the most dramatic and dizzying experiments in freedom. The story sounds familiar, but in Louis Menand's excellent new book, the Sixties in question are the 1860s, the war is the Civil War, and the revolution in values is the philosophical movement that came to be known as ...
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- Magazine article from: The American Prospect SCIALABBA, GEORGE June 18, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine Siegel, Lee October 1, 2001 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Psychological Record Morris, Edward K. March 22, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Alschuler, Albert W. November 20, 2002 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Fredrickson, George M. February 1, 2003 700+ words
...their own time, especially the Civil War. Although he devotes most attention...net beyond the membership of the Metaphysical Club. In addition to Oliver Wendell...influenced by their belief that the Civil War demonstrated the disastrous effects...
