The Thought and Character of William James,9780826512796

The Thought and Character of William James

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ISBN13: 9780826512796
ISBN10: 0826512798
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Pub. Date: 2020-12-15
Publisher(s): Vanderbilt University Press
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Summary

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1936 This out- of-print classic returns, in a new paperback edition, through the Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy. Designed to serve as both a systematic account of James's development and a repository of selections from his unpublished writings, the one-volume work (which forms the basis for this new paperback edition) offers a brief and convenient sourcebook of James's thought, set forth in terms that require no previous familiarity with technical problems of philosophy and psychology.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Paperback Edition ix
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Foreword xix
Preface xxi
The Elder Henry James
3(7)
The Elder James and Emerson
10(12)
Personal Characteristics of the Elder James
22(9)
Father and Son
31(11)
Boyhood at Home and Abroad
42(16)
Shall He Become a Painter?
58(5)
Scientific Studies at Harvard
63(11)
Medical Studies and Philosophical Beginnings
74(7)
Dresden and Berlin
81(8)
Wendell Holmes
89(11)
Reading and Criticism
100(6)
Towards Psychology and Philosophy
106(13)
Depression and Recovery
119(8)
Chauncey Wright and Charles Peirce
127(7)
Settling into the Career
134(8)
Established in Life
142(8)
European Contracts in 1882-1883
150(11)
Josiah Royce and Idealism
161(11)
Teaching, Writing, and Travel
172(9)
James and the Science of Psychology
181(5)
The Writing of the Psychology
186(7)
Sources, Doctrines, and Influence of the Psychology
193(7)
The Aftermath of the Psychology
200(8)
The Will to Believe
208(8)
Moral Individualism
216(15)
Social and Political Sentiments
231(11)
James as a Reformer
242(11)
Varieties of Religious Experience
253(11)
James's Personal Faith
264(8)
Radical Empiricism
272(8)
Friendly Disputes with Charles Peirce
280(14)
Pragmatism
294(11)
James and Dewey
305(8)
Pragmatism in Italy and Germany
313(10)
Retirement from Teaching
323(15)
James and Bergson
338(14)
The Unfinished Task
352(7)
Morbid Traits
359(11)
Benign Traits
370(15)
Conclusion 385(5)
Abbreviations 390(3)
Index 393

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