The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

By Charles Sanders Peirce

Book Overview

..". a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." -- Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books "The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce's standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness."A -- London Review of Books A convenient two-volume reader's edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce's system of signs and his mature pragmatism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253328497
• ISBN13: 9780253328496
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.2" x 6.4"