William James At The Boundaries

Author : Francesca Bordogna
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226066523

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William James at the Boundaries by Francesca Bordogna Pdf

At Columbia University in 1906, William James gave a highly confrontational speech to the American Philosophical Association (APA). He ignored the technical philosophical questions the audience had gathered to discuss and instead addressed the topic of human energy. Tramping on the rules of academic decorum, James invoked the work of amateurs, read testimonials on the benefits of yoga and alcohol, and concluded by urging his listeners to take up this psychological and physiological problem. What was the goal of this unusual speech? Rather than an oddity, Francesca Bordogna asserts that the APA address was emblematic—it was just one of many gestures that James employed as he plowed through the barriers between academic, popular, and pseudoscience, as well as the newly emergent borders between the study of philosophy, psychology, and the “science of man.” Bordogna reveals that James’s trespassing of boundaries was an essential element of a broader intellectual and social project. By crisscrossing divides, she argues, James imagined a new social configuration of knowledge, a better society, and a new vision of the human self. As the academy moves toward an increasingly interdisciplinary future, William James at the Boundaries reintroduces readers to a seminal influence on the way knowledge is pursued.

Author : Dr. William James
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 677 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781627931762

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The William James Reader by Dr. William James Pdf

William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: Essays in Radical Empiricism, The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and What is an Emotion? These books helped forge a field and remain as important today as when they were first written!

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781775560784

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Memories and Studies by William James Pdf

William James was a towering intellectual figure with a vast knowledge base that transcended typical disciplinary boundaries. In this collection of essays, William James explores the topics of memory and cognition through the lenses of philosophy, psychology, and his own personal life experiences, all recounted in his uniquely engaging writing style.

Author : James T. Sparrow,William J. Novak,Stephen W. Sawyer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226277783

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Boundaries of the State in US History by James T. Sparrow,William J. Novak,Stephen W. Sawyer Pdf

The question of how the American state defines its powernot what it is” but what itdoeshas become central to a range of historical discourses, from the founding of the Republic and the role of the educational system, to the functions of agencies and America's place in the world. Here, James Sparrow, William J. Novak, and Stephen Sawyer assemble some definitional work in this area, showing that the state is an integral actor in physical, spatial, and economic exercises of power. They further imply that traditional conceptions of the state cannot grasp the subtleties of power and its articulation. Contributors include C.J. Álvarez, Elisabeth Clemens, Richard John, Robert Lieberman, Omar McRoberts, Gautham Rao, Gabriel Rosenberg, Jason Scott Smith, Tracy Steffes, and the editors.

Author : William James
Publisher : Wilder Publications
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1604590661

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The William James Reader by William James Pdf

William James was the older brother of novelist Henry James, and a pioneering psychologist and philosopher. His works pushed the boundaries of psychology and helped shape the direction the field would grow in. Collected here are four of his most important books: Essays in Radical Empiricism, The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and What is an Emotion? These books helped forge a field and remain as important today as when they were first written!

Author : Ken Wilber
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780834822689

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No Boundary by Ken Wilber Pdf

A straightforward and accessible study of personal development and human consciousness, as seen through the lens of Eastern and Western therapeutic traditions A simple yet comprehensive guide to the types of psychologies and therapies available from Eastern and Western sources. Each chapter includes a specific exercise designed to help the reader understand the nature and practice of the specific therapies. Wilber presents an easy-to-use map of human consciousness against which the various therapies are introduced and explained. This edition includes a new preface.

Author : Jeremy Carrette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134088065

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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination by Jeremy Carrette Pdf

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes. Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism, on the place of the body and sex in James, on the significance of George Eliot’s novels, and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown,’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion.’

Author : Jeremy Carrette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134087990

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William James's Hidden Religious Imagination by Jeremy Carrette Pdf

This book offers a radical new reading of William James’s work on the idea of ‘religion.’ Moving beyond previous psychological and philosophical interpretations, it uncovers a dynamic, imaginative, and critical use of the category of religion. This work argues that we can only fully understand James’s work on religion by returning to the ground of his metaphysics of relations and by incorporating literary and historical themes. Author Jeremy Carette develops original perspectives on the influence of James’s father and Calvinism, on the place of the body and sex in James, on the significance of George Eliot’s novels, and Herbert Spencer’s ‘unknown,’ revealing a social and political discourse of civil religion and republicanism and a poetic imagination at the heart of James understanding of religion. These diverse themes are brought together through a post-structural sensitivity and a recovery of the importance of the French philosopher Charles Renouvier to James’s work. This study pushes new boundaries in Jamesian scholarship by reading James with pluralism and from the French tradition. It will be a benchmark text in the reshaping of James and the nineteenth-century foundations of the modern study of ‘religion.’

Author : William James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1182626158

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The Letters of William James by William James Pdf

Author : Robert D. Richardson
Publisher : HMH
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547526737

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William James by Robert D. Richardson Pdf

The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post

Author : Jason Gary Horn
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826210724

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Mark Twain and William James by Jason Gary Horn Pdf

Focusing on the experience of freedom embodied in three Twain texts, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, and No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger, this book encapsulates both Twain's early and late theoretical speculations on the nature of the divided self. From the thoughts and actions of the protagonists in these works, we can trace and follow Twain's fictive map of mind, one that eventually leads to a new vision of personal freedom.

Author : Hunter Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802047343

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William James on Radical Empiricism and Religion by Hunter Brown Pdf

Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivismor fideism that critics have accused him of but occasions hardships and self-sacrifice which James describes.

Author : William James
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 885 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1920-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465575005

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The Letters of William James (Complete) by William James Pdf

"This book provides a chronological presentation and explanation of letters by William James from 1893-1910. Readers of this book will have seen that the center of his interest had always been religious and philosophical"--Create. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).

Author : Eugene Taylor,Robert H. Wozniak
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 185506412X

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Pure Experience by Eugene Taylor,Robert H. Wozniak Pdf

The radical empiricism of William James was first formally presented in his seminal papers of 1904, "Does Consciousness Exist?" and "A World of Pure Experience". In James's view, pure experience was to serve as the source for psychology's primary data, and radical empiricism was to launch an effective critique of experimentalism in psychology, a critique from which the problem of experimentalism within science could be addressed more broadly. This collection of papers presents James's formal statements on radical empiricism and a representative sample of contemporary responses from psychologists and philosophers. With only a few exceptions, these responses indicate just how badly James was misread -- psychologists ignoring the heart of James's message and philosophers transforming James's metaphysics into something quite unintelligible to the emerging generation of experimental psychologists.

Author : William James
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732699704

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The Letters of William James by William James Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Letters of William James by William James