Louis Menand
Bornin Syracuse, The United States
January 21, 1952
Website
https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/louis-me...
Genre
Philosophy, History
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Louis Menand, professor of English at Harvard University, is the author of The Metaphysical Club, which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in History. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, he lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Average rating: 4.03 · 10,457 ratings · 1,273 reviews · 37 distinct works • Similar authors
The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in Americaby
Louis Menand
really liked it 4.07 avg rating — 5,483 ratings — published 2001 — 35 editions
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The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold Warby
Louis Menand
4.23 avg rating — 1,179 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions
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The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American Universityby
Louis Menand
3.58 avg rating — 344 ratings — published 2010 — 29 editions
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Pragmatism: A Readerby
Louis Menand (Editor)
really liked it 3.97 avg rating — 268 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions
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American Studiesby
Louis Menand
really liked it 3.90 avg rating — 267 ratings — published 2002 — 22 editions
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The Best American Essays 2004by
Louis Menand (Editor),
Robert Atwan (Series Editor)
really liked it 3.93 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2004 — 7 editions
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Discovering Modernism: T.S. Eliot and His Contextby
Louis Menand
3.87 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
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The Future of Academic Freedomby
Louis Menand (Editor)
3.50 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebookby
Louis Menand (Editor),
Paul Reitter (Editor),
Chad Wellmon (Editor)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions
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O Mundo Livre: Arte e Pensamento na Guerra Friaby
Louis Menand,
Paulo Tavares (translator),
Sara M. Felício (translator)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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― Louis Menand
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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.”
― Louis Menand
tags: agents, decisions, fate, history, individuals, predestination, tolstoy
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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.”
― Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
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