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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James participated in transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature. |
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Part I : James's Intellectual Contexts -- 1. Reception of William James in continental Europe / Jaime Nubiola -- 2. William James, ecumenical Protestantism, and the dynamics of secularization / David A. Hollinger -- 3. Religion, sociology, and psychology : William James and the re-enchantment of the world / Richard H. King -- 4. William James, the French tradition, and the incomplete transposition of the spiritual into the aesthetic / Barbara Loerzer -- 5. Vastations and prosthetics : Henry James Sr. and the transatlantic education of William and Henry James / Peter Kuryla -- 6. Morbid and positive thinking : William James, psychology, and illness / Martin Halliwell -- 7. Encountering the smashing projectile : William James on John Stuart Mill and the woman question / Leslie Butler -- Part II : the philosophy of pluralism -- 8. A pluralistic universe a century later : rationality, pluralism, and religion / David C. Lamberth -- 9. William James, A pluralistic universe, and the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry / Joel D.S. Rasmussen -- 10. James's critique of absolute idealism in A pluralistic universe / Michael R. Slater -- 11. Jamesian pragmatic pluralism and the problem of God / Sami Pihlström -- 12. Growing up zigzag : reassessing the transatlantic legacy of William James / Jeremy Carrette. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
James, William, 1842-1910.
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James, William, 1842-1910. |
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Religion -- Philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern. |
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Halliwell, Martin, editor.
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Rasmussen, Joel D. S., editor.
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Oxford University Press.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Halliwell, Martin. William James and the Transatlantic Conversation. Oxford Scholarship Online 2014 130639631X |
| ISBN |
9780191767173 (ebook) |
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0191767174 (ebook) |
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9780191511264 |
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0191511269 |
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130639631X |
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9781306396318 |
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9780199687510 (hardback) |
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019968751X (hardback) |
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