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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      06 January 2010
      27 September 2004
      ISBN:
      9780511617300
      9780521840286
      9780521549554
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511617300
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.46kg, 258 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 258 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, American Literature, American Studies, Philosophy
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    This 2004 book is an accessible introduction to the full range of the philosophy of William James. It portrays that philosophy as containing a deep division between a Promethean type of pragmatism and a passive mysticism. The pragmatist James conceives of truth and meaning as a means to control nature and make it do our bidding. The mystic James eschews the use of concepts in order to penetrate to the inner conscious core of all being, including nature at large. Richard Gale attempts to harmonize these pragmatic and mystical perspectives. This introduction is drawn from and complements the author's much more comprehensive and systematic study The Divided Self of William James, a volume that has received the highest critical praise. With its briefer compass and non-technical style this introduction should help to disseminate the key elements of one of the great modern philosophies to an even wider readership.

    Reviews

    ‘What makes the book exceptional is its intimate grasp of James’s thought and of the thinker behind it …’

    Source: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research

    ‘Carefully argued, written with gusto and full of wise-cracking bonhomie...a major stimulus to the understanding of James’s philosophy.’

    Source: Philosophical Quarterly

    ‘… presents a deeper, more systematic picture of James’s philosophy than any other presently available.’

    Source: Mind

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