No one has mentioned Louis Menand's *The Metaphysical Club*? On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 3:11 PM, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> wrote:
> Janos, list, > > Not on line as far as I know, but of course there's Brent's biography > (also in a revised version) which some seem to love and others (including > me and the late Joe Ransdell) do not, finding it not at all well-balanced > in terms of portraying Peirce's character. For example, there are > disproportionately more quotations from Peirce's enemies than from his > friends in it, while there are, for example, many letters (from students, > family, and friends) which paint a very different picture of Peirce than > Brent's. In my opinion, unfortunately, the tone and conclusions of that > biography have come to be accepted all too generally in the literature as > the "last word" re: Peirce's personal life and character. As I see it, a > complete, well-balanced biography has yet to be written. > > Ken Ketner was well qualified to write a definitive biography but instead > decided to cast his projected 3 volume biography, *His Glass Essence: An > Autobiography of Charles Sanders Peirce*, as a literary fantasy with > non-historical characters, etc. included, this approach no doubt influenced > by his friend, the author, Walker Percy (Ketner and Lane's correspondence, > published as *A Thief of Peirce*, is quite interesting and valuable, esp. > Ketner's appendices on valental matters). There are some intriguing > anectoes, unfamiliar to me before reading them, in Ketner's "autobiography" > (the other two volumes unlikely ever to be written), but you have to work > hard to find them. > > At the conclusion of the Peirce Centennial a few years back at a church in > UMass, Lowell, Nathan Houser gave a plenary talk which was essentially a > brief biography of Peirce with several anecdotes I hadn't previously heard. > However, I don't believe that that talk was ever published; but I'll ask > him off-list about it. > > So, you're correct, I believe: there seems not to be a great deal of > anecdotal information on Peirce available on line. I would be delighted if > others here could point to any on line resources with anecdotes of Peirce's > personal life and character, material which apparently neither of us were > yet able to discover, Janos. > > Best, > > Gary > > > > > *Gary Richmond* > *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* > *Communication Studies* > *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* > *718 482-5690* > > On Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 8:14 AM, Janos Sarbo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> List, >> >> There are various sources on internet about Peirce's life, but very few >> information about him as a person, about his character, etc. >> >> Is anybody familiar with Peirce anecdotes? >> >> Kind regards, >> Janos Sarbo >> >> >> >> >> ----------------------------- >> PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON >> PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to >> [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L >> but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the >> BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce >> -l/peirce-l.htm . >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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