| Description |
x, 364 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The Promethean Pragmatist. 1. The Ethics of Prometheanism. 2. The Willfulness of Belief. 3. The Freedom of Belief. 4. The Will to Believe. 5. The Ethics of Truth. 6. The Semantics of "Truth" 7. Ontological Relativism: William James Meets Poo-bah -- The Anti-Promethean Mystic. 8. The Self. 9. The I-Thou Quest for Intimacy and Religious Mysticism. 10. The Humpty-Dumpty Intuition and Panpsychism. 11. Attempts at a One-World Interpretation of James -- App. John Dewey's Naturalization of William James |
| Summary |
This book offers a powerful new interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James's philosophy moves and the inevitable tensions that arise as a result. Such is the range of James's philosophy that this stimulating new approach will find readers among those interested in the history of modern philosophy, especially pragmatism, as well as in the history of ideas, religion, and American studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-358) and index |
| Subject |
James, William, 1842-1910.
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Ethics -- Psychological aspects.
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Good and evil -- Psychological aspects.
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Philosophy.
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Psychology and philosophy.
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| LC no. |
98030477 |
| ISBN |
0521642698 |
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