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William James: in the maelstrom of American modernism : a biography
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Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date
2006.
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English
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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.
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9780618433254
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