# The Essential Peirce, Volume 1

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- Authors: [Nathan Houser](https://www.bookquiver.com/nathan-houser), [Christian J.W. Kloesel](https://www.bookquiver.com/christian-j-w-kloesel)
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- ISBN: 978-02-5320-721-0
- Pages: 448
- Published: 1992-11-22
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

" . . . 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." —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.