225 books
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344 voters
Dewey
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Morgens schlief Dewey neben einer Kiste voller Karteikarten und hatte nur eine Pfote hineingestellt. Vielleicht hatte es Stunden gedauert, bis er widerwillig eingesehen hatte,dass mehr von ihm keinen Platz darin fand.
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If we are looking for alternative visions of American life in the decades following the Civil War, Homes, James, Peirce, and Dewey are not the figures we would turn to. This has something to do, no doubt with their temperaments and their politics, but it is also a consequence of their attitude toward ideas.
What was that attitude? If we strain out the difference, personal and philosophical, they had with one another, we can say that what these four thinkers had in common was not a group of ide
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― The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
― The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
