Charles Sanders Peirce (Enlarged Edition), Revised and Enlarged Edition: A Life

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" Brent] has produced a thoughtful, sometimes moving, and entirely accessible intellectual biography which is also, under the circumstances, indispensable." --The New York Review of Books

..". 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.

Author: Brent, Joseph
Binding: TP
Desirability: 4
Edition: Revised
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Subject: Philosophers