/lit/ - Literature

>>13668551

actually, Peirce is still ahead of the times

>>13668634
Yeah, but he's still forgotten despite all the attention he had when he was alive, which is why I started the thread with him.

>>13668551
Seems fuarkin interesting >>13668634
What would you guys recommend

>>13668719
The Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

>>13668551
Quite literally every American philosopher and thinker of the 19th Century. William James, John Dewey, Peirce, as you said, the entire philosophical school of Pragmatism, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margret Fuller, and the entire philosophical school of Transcendentalism as well. Why was 19th Century American philosophy forgotten is my question?

>>13668719
His essay on nominalism vs realism is based and pretty accessible if you know what those terms mean

>>13668715
most of the attention he had when he was alive was for Peirce the logician/mathematician, Peirce the philosopher/semiotician(mostly post-retirement) was never understood or recognized in his time. he struggled to make ends meet or even find a publisher, which is why he never had the chance to publish a book besides on his early empirical research for the coast survey. even William James, his close friend didn't understand a lot of Peirce. he became famous after he died in poverty and addiction with the first publication of the collected papers(which the Harvard administration suppressed).
in the 60s iirc Harvard freed the Peirce nachlass and Peirce scholarship took off. now id say Peirce the philosopher is more widely read and understood than ever. his contributions to logic are more widely appreciated as well.
unfortunately, most peirce readers only read his early pragmatism and anti- nominalism/cartesian stuff. so many miss out on his mind-blowing categories, semeiotic, mature pragmatism, cosmology, etc
>>13668719
I recommend essential Peirce. especially if you like print copies(the CPP cost 1200 dollars for the full set last time I checked) and if you aren't a logician/mathematician. in my experience CPP is mostly useful for understanding Peirce scholarship and phaneroscopy, and was poorly put together. I think the IEP people are working on a new one.

>>13668986
which? peirce's realism grew stronger until he died. he considered his early realisms, to be too nominalist

>>13668744
>>13668986
>>13669083
Thanks guys

>>13668551
I mean, it's not like he's totally forgotten but it's not like he's famous either.