Metaphysical Club

by Louis Menand

Macmillan · 2002 · 546 pages

In the wake of the Civil War, a clandestine group of brilliant minds in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including a future Supreme Court justice and the father of American psychology, grappled with a radical new concept: that ideas are not abstract truths but practical tools forged by society. Louis Menand masterfully traces the evolution of this revolutionary perspective, weaving together the lives of these intellectuals and their profound impact on the very fabric of modern American thought, from the Civil War to the foundations of free speech.

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