| William James Contributor(s): Wilshire, Bruce (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0873959345 ISBN-13: 9780873959346 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Psychology |
| Dewey: 191 |
| LCCN: 84008848 |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 6.06" W x 9.13" (1.43 lbs) 369 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of most burning current interest. William James: The Essential Writings is a series of philosophical arguments on some of the most obscure and head-cracking problems in contemporary philosophy; the relation of thought to its object; the interrelationships between meaning and truth; the levels and structures of experience; the degrees of reality; the nature of the embodied self; the relation of ethics, aesthetics, and religious experience to man's strenuously and heroically active nature; and, above all, the structurization of the experienced life-world as the validating ground and origin of all theory; Bruce Wilshire has provided an introduction to William James's thought on these and other related points which is at once both substantial and subtle. |
