William James and the Transatlantic Conversation
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William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion

William James and the Transatlantic Conversation: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion


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William James and the Transatlantic Conversation focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James's encounters with European thinkers and ideas ran throughout his early life and across his distinguished international career, in which he participated in a number of transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature. This volume explores and extends these conversations by drawing together twelve scholars from a range of disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic to assess James's work in all its variety, to trace his multidisciplinary reception across the twentieth century, and to evaluate his legacy in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book considers James's many intellectual influences and the second half focuses on A Pluralistic Universe (1909), the published text of his 1908 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford University, as a key text for assessing James's transatlantic conversations. The pluralistic transatlantic currents addressed in the first part of the volume enable a fuller understanding of James's philosophy of pluralism that forms the explicit focus for the second part. Taken as a collection, the volume is unique in scholarship on James in generating transatlantic, interdisciplinary, and cross-generational dialogues, and it repositions James as an important international thinker and arguably the most distinctive American intellectual figure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Table of Contents:
Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen: Introduction: William James and the Transatlantic Conversation I: James's Intellectual Contexts 1: Jaime Nubiola: The Reception of William James in Continental Europe 2: David A. Hollinger: William James, Ecumenical Protestantism, and the Dynamics of Secularization 3: Richard H. King: Religion, Sociology, and Psychology: William James and the Re-enchantment of the World 4: Barbara Loerzer: William James, the French Tradition, and the Incomplete Transposition of the Spiritual into the Aesthetic 5: Peter Kuryla: Vastations and Prosthetics: Henry James Sr. and the Transatlantic Education of William and Henry James 6: Martin Halliwell: Morbid and Positive Thinking: William James, Psychology, and Illness 7: Leslie Butler: Encountering the Smashing Projectile: William James on John Stuart Mill and the Woman Question II: The Philosophy of Pluralism 8: David C. Lamberth: A Pluralistic Universe a Century Later: Rationality, Pluralism, and Religion 9: Joel D. S. Rasmussen: William James, A Pluralistic Universe, and the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry 10: Michael R. Slater: James's Critique of Monistic Idealism in A Pluralistic Universe 11: Sami Pihlström: Jamesian Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of God 12: Jeremy Carrette: Growing Up Zigzag: Reassessing the Transatlantic Legacy of William James Bibliography

About the Author :
Edited by Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. Joel D. S. Rasmussen is University Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought and Fellow of Mansfield College at the University of Oxford.

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lively and insightful ... This volume, with its twelve laboratories of imaginative inquiry, pushes the boundaries for our understanding of James. [A]ny reader wishing to be better acquainted with him would be well advised to consult this book.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780199687510
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 536 gr
  • ISBN-10: 019968751X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2014
  • Height: 241 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Sub Title: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Philosophy of Religion
  • Width: 163 mm


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