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His glassy essence : an autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce / Kenneth Laine Ketner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
- Series:
- Vanderbilt library of American philosophy
- The Vanderbilt library of American philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
- Peirce, Charles S.
- Philosophers--United States--Biography.
- Philosophers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is credited as the inventor of the philosophical school of pragmatism. Biographer Kenneth Ketner--Inspired by a friendship and correspondence with novelist Walker Percy, who was absorbed by the life and writings of Peirce--adopts a narrative strategy that lets Peirce tell his own early life story in this first of a planned three-volume project. 20 illustrations.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Largely in Charles S. Peirce's words, with additions by Kenneth Laine Ketner.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-404) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826513131
- OCLC:
- 38286512
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