Writings, 1878-1899 - James William
KORTE INHOUD
William James, a member of America's most illustrious intellectual family, is widely acclaimed as the country's foremost philosopher, the first of its psychologists, and a champion of religious pluralism. As the apostle of pragmatism, his influence on American thought is as strong now as it has ever been. James's emphasis on the creative power of faith, will, and action, his opening up of philosophy to the fresh air of ordinary experience, his fascination with alternative forms of belief and states of consciousness, and his impatience with dogmas of any kind--all make him a defender of individual experience, and earn him a place beside Emerson and Whitman as an exponent of American democratic culture. In this volume are the brilliant, engagingly written works of James's early and middle years. The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy advances the liberating argument that each of us has the right to believe in hypotheses that are not susceptible to proof and that such beliefs might actually c...
1992Taal: Engelszie alle details...
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1992Uitgever: The Library of America1212 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0940450720ISBN-13: 9780940450721Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Sold together with companion volume "Writings 1902-1910". Price is for volume I + volume II (more than 2500 p.)
