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

[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: Joseph Brent
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/22/1998
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780253211613

About the Author

Joseph Brent, an intellectual historian, was formerly on the faculty at the University of the District of Columbia.