| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 295 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of the Works of William James -- Introduction: Seven Introductions -- 1. Possibilities, Faith, and Action: Redeeming the Wild Universe Through The Will to Believe -- 2. Avoiding Old-Fogeyism: Plasticity, Habits of Genius, and Acts of Greatness -- 3. More Inclusive Ideals: Ethical Lives After Old-Fashioned Moral Philosophy -- 4. The Political Philosopher and the Political Life -- 5. The Temperament of Pragmatism -- 6. Everything Here Is Plastic: Radical Empiricism and Worlds of Relations -- 7. Pluralism Unconcluded -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism draws critically on the full range of the writings of William James--his psychology, theory of belief and truth, radical empiricism, pluralism, and his accounts of religion, ethics, politics, and society-to develop a powerful case for an original pragmatic world view and temperament resonant with James's philosophy. In a manner that avoids the "vicious intellectualism" that James criticized, the book engages more than a century of scholarship on James, and places him in conversation with both his contemporaries and more recent writers. Throughout the book's seven interwoven chapters, the author moves both with James and at times against James to address and illuminate central issues about the nature of the self, freedom, morality, community, truth, reality, and possibility. The chapters take up, in turn, James's views on: faith and freedom; habit, attention, and flourishing; inclusive and ethical lives; democratic politics; the temperament of pragmatism; a radically empirical ontology of relations; and, a pluralistic and unfinished universe. The focus throughout is practical: the book aims to show the differences in concrete lives that it makes to take up a broadly Jamesian pragmatic, radically empirical, and pluralistic personal perspective across the fallible and "ever not quite" endeavours of our finite lives. "From this unsparing practical ordeal," James noted, "no professor's lectures and no array of books can save us." In this spirit, this book does not pretend to provide, by itself, salvation. Instead, it effectively develops insights in the writings of William James that continue to constitute invaluable resources for new problems, new possibilities, and new forms of personal and social life"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on October 12, 2023) |
| Subject |
James, William, 1842-1910.
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| SUBJECT |
James, William, 1842-1910 fast |
| Subject |
Philosophy.
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philosophy.
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History of philosophy, philosophical traditions.
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Philosophy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022027429 |
| ISBN |
9780197664650 |
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0197664652 |
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9780197664643 |
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0197664644 |
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9780197664667 |
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0197664660 |
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