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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America.(Review)
Louis Menand The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 546 pages, $27
In the early 1970s, Richard Rorty, a professor of philosophy at Princeton, decided that his discipline had reached a point of exhaustion. Although his anthology The Linguistic Turn (1967) was assigned in every first-year graduate seminar in the country, and his introduction had praised "linguistic philosophy" for cleansing the field of meta-physical rubbish, the activity seemed to him academic and inconsequential. At one time, philosophers had expounded wisdom and justice to a broad intellectual audience. But, by 1970, philosophers discussed counterfactual ...
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