William James : in the maelstrom of American modernism : a biography / Robert D. Richardson.
2006
191 J29r 2007
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Title
William James : in the maelstrom of American modernism : a biography / Robert D. Richardson.
Author
ISBN
0618433252
9780618433254
9780618919895
0618919899
9780618433254
9780618919895
0618919899
Imprint
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006, 2007
Language
English
Description
xvi, 622 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
191 J29r 2007
System Control No.
(OCoLC)62766694
(OCoLC)62766694
(OCoLC)62766694
Summary
Biographer Richardson has written a moving portrait of James--pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club and author of The Varieties of Religious Experience. The biography, ten years in the making, draws on unpublished letters, journals, and family records. Richardson paints extraordinary scenes from what James himself called the "buzzing blooming confusion" of his life, beginning with childhood, as he struggled to achieve amid the domestic chaos and intellectual brilliance of Father, brother Henry, and sister Alice. James was a beloved teacher who taught courage and risk-taking, and served as mentor to W.E.B. Du Bois, Gertrude Stein, and many other Harvard outsiders. Richardson also illuminates James's hugely influential works. One of the great figures in mysticism here brought richly to life, James is a man "whose leading ideas are still so fresh and challenging that they are not yet fully assimilated by the modern world they helped to bring about."--From publisher description.
Note
Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 530-589) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
I. Growing up zigzag:
Art is my vocation
Newport and the Jameses
The father
Harvard, 1861
Science and the Civil War
Comparative anatomy and medical school
The gulls at the mouth of the Amazon
Tea squalls and a life according to nature
We must be our own providence
A dead and drifting life
Minnie Temple
William James, M.D.
Treading water
The end of youth
II. The action of consciousness: Hitting bottom
Turning to physiology
The Metaphysical Club and Chauncey Wright
Charles Pierce
Cambridge and Harvard, 1872
Teaching
To Europe and back
Emerson, Mill, and Blood
From physiology to physiological psychology
Days of rapture and heartbreak
The trouble with Herbert Spencer
The action of consciousness
III. The principles of Psychology: Spaces
The heart wants its chance
The feeling of effort
Hegel in Cambridge
Death of a mother
Goodbye, my sacred old father
The wonderful stream of our consciousness
Not a simple temperament
What is an emotion?
The literary remains of Henry James Sr.
The death of Herman
Mrs. Leonora Piper
My only absolutely satisfying companion (Alice)
Hypnotism and summers at Chocorua
Instinct and will
Santayana at Harvard
The psychology of belief
Reunion with Alice: the hidden self
IV. The varieties of religious experience: Response to "Principles" and the moral philosopher
Flooded by the deep life
The death of Alice James
European sabbatical
Abnormal Psych
Talks to teachers
Sarah, Rosina, and Pauline
Is life worth living?
The gospel of relaxation
The right to believe
High tide
Walpurgisnacht
California
A certain blindness
The logic of the absolute
Religion is real
The religion of healthy-mindedness
The sick soul: slouching toward Edinburgh
The twice-born
Voluntary poverty
The mystical center
V. The Philosopher: William James at 60
Bergson
The Ph.D. Octopus and John Dewey's New School
Emerson
The true Harvard
A life of interruptions
The many and the one
The modern moment: radical empiricism
Schiller versus Bradley versus James
Royce: pragmatic stirrings
William and Henry
California dreaming
Earthquake
A general theory of human action
Pragmatism
The energies of men
The Harvard elective system applied to the universe
The true race of prophets
A pluralistic universe
Psychical researches redux
The meaning of truth
Ever not quite
Chronology
James family genealogy.
Art is my vocation
Newport and the Jameses
The father
Harvard, 1861
Science and the Civil War
Comparative anatomy and medical school
The gulls at the mouth of the Amazon
Tea squalls and a life according to nature
We must be our own providence
A dead and drifting life
Minnie Temple
William James, M.D.
Treading water
The end of youth
II. The action of consciousness: Hitting bottom
Turning to physiology
The Metaphysical Club and Chauncey Wright
Charles Pierce
Cambridge and Harvard, 1872
Teaching
To Europe and back
Emerson, Mill, and Blood
From physiology to physiological psychology
Days of rapture and heartbreak
The trouble with Herbert Spencer
The action of consciousness
III. The principles of Psychology: Spaces
The heart wants its chance
The feeling of effort
Hegel in Cambridge
Death of a mother
Goodbye, my sacred old father
The wonderful stream of our consciousness
Not a simple temperament
What is an emotion?
The literary remains of Henry James Sr.
The death of Herman
Mrs. Leonora Piper
My only absolutely satisfying companion (Alice)
Hypnotism and summers at Chocorua
Instinct and will
Santayana at Harvard
The psychology of belief
Reunion with Alice: the hidden self
IV. The varieties of religious experience: Response to "Principles" and the moral philosopher
Flooded by the deep life
The death of Alice James
European sabbatical
Abnormal Psych
Talks to teachers
Sarah, Rosina, and Pauline
Is life worth living?
The gospel of relaxation
The right to believe
High tide
Walpurgisnacht
California
A certain blindness
The logic of the absolute
Religion is real
The religion of healthy-mindedness
The sick soul: slouching toward Edinburgh
The twice-born
Voluntary poverty
The mystical center
V. The Philosopher: William James at 60
Bergson
The Ph.D. Octopus and John Dewey's New School
Emerson
The true Harvard
A life of interruptions
The many and the one
The modern moment: radical empiricism
Schiller versus Bradley versus James
Royce: pragmatic stirrings
William and Henry
California dreaming
Earthquake
A general theory of human action
Pragmatism
The energies of men
The Harvard elective system applied to the universe
The true race of prophets
A pluralistic universe
Psychical researches redux
The meaning of truth
Ever not quite
Chronology
James family genealogy.
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