Review of James Hoopes, Consciousness in New England: From Puritanism and Ideas to Psychoanalysis and Semiotic

Abstract

Finds Hoopes an engaging and insightful intellectual historian. Believes he addresses the problems associated with the determination of meaning and the nature of consciousness as understood by eminent New England philosophers and psychologists in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finds his discussion of C.S. Peirce especially useful.