The essential peirce, volume 1: selected philosophical writingsa (1867a1893), paperback/edited by nathan houser and christian kl

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 Peirces standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness.

``-London Review of Books A convenient two-volume readers 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 Peirces system of signs and his mature pragmatism.