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Louis Menand
Born
in Syracuse, The United States
January 21, 1952
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
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2001
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43 editions
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
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2021
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10 editions
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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University
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2010
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27 editions
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Pragmatism: A Reader
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1997
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5 editions
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American Studies
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2002
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22 editions
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The Best American Essays 2004
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2004
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7 editions
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Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Context
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published
1986
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10 editions
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The Future of Academic Freedom
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1996
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7 editions
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The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook
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Story of the Soup Cans
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“There is history the way Tolstoy imagined it, as a great, slow-moving weather system in which even tsars and generals are just leaves before the storm. And there is history the way Hollywood imagines it, as a single story line in which the right move by the tsar or the wrong move by the general changes everything. Most of us, deep down, are probably Hollywood people. We like to invent “what if” scenarios--what if x had never happened, what if y had happened instead?--because we like to believe that individual decisions make a difference: that, if not for x, or if only there had been y, history might have plunged forever down a completely different path. Since we are agents, we have an interest in the efficacy of agency.”
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“The lesson Holmes took from the war can be put in a sentence. It is that certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideologues, dogmatists, and bullies—people who think that their rightness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to subscribe to their particular ideology, dogma, or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later, by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them.”
― The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
― The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
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