Author/Contributor(s): | Brent, Joseph |
Publisher: | Indiana University Press |
Date: | 11/22/1998 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
. . . a fine biography. --The New York Times Book Review
. . . an extraordinary, inspiring portrait of the largely forgotten Peirce, a progenitor of modern thought who devised a realist metaphysics and attempted to achieve direct knowledge of God by applying the logic of science. --Publishers Weekly
In this expanded paperback edition of the critically acclaimed biography of a true American original, the philosopher-polymath Charles Sanders Peirce, Joseph Brent refines his interpretation of Peirce's thought and character based on new research, and has added a glossary and a detailed chronology.