Joseph Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life.(Book review)

Nineteenth-Century Prose | March 22, 1994| | Copyright

Joseph Brent, Charles Sanders Peirce: A Life (Indiana UP, 1993), 388 pp., $35.00 cloth.

Powerful irony confronts the reviewer of Joseph Brent's superb new biography of the American philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, Charles S. Peirce. The story that Brent tells is one of the constant series of obstacles that arose to prevent Peirce from publicly sharing the full fruits of his lifelong philosophical labors. Yet Brent himself encountered, since the beginning of his dissertation research more than three decades ago, a variety of obstacles to the completion and ...

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