The Thought and Character of William James (Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy) - Softcover

Perry, Ralph Barton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826512798 ISBN 13: 9780826512796

Verlag: Univ of Chicago Press behalf of Vanderbilt Univ. P, 1996

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1936

This out- of-print classic returns, in a new paperback edition, through the Vanderbilt Library of American Philosophy. Designed to serve as both a systematic account of James's development and a repository of selections from his unpublished writings, the one-volume work (which forms the basis for this new paperback edition) offers a brief and convenient sourcebook of James's thought, set forth in terms that require no previous familiarity with technical problems of philosophy and psychology.

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Ralph Barton Perry (1876-1957) was long associated with the outstanding philosophy department at Harvard, as student and professor, during its heyday. He was the author of nearly two dozen books, among which Puritanism and Democracy and several others are still in print. Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Purdue University and President of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, is the author of two previous books on William James: William James's Radical Reconstructionism of Philosophy and Chaos and Context: A Study in William James.

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When it was originally published in a two-volume edition in 1935, Ralph Barton Perry's magisterial work on William James was greeted with much critical acclaim. A briefer one-volume edition was published in 1947 to serve as both a systematic account of James's development and a repository of selections from his unpublished writings. The one-volume work (which forms the basis for this new paperback edition) offers a brief and convenient sourcebook of James's thought, set forth in terms that require no previous familiarity with technical problems of philosophy and psychology. An anthology of well-edited primary source material as well as a critical biography, The Thought and Character of William James today remains a classic text in the field of American philosophy. Interspersed throughout Perry's insightful and engaging narrative are excerpts not only from James but from many other of the leading philosophical figures of his day, including Bergson, Davidson, Dewey, Emerson, Holmes, both the elder and the younger Henry James, Peirce, Royce, and Santayana. The whole is a gracefully written examination of the life of a key American philosopher and an illuminating introduction to many of the founding personalities that today define American philosophy.

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• Verlag: Univ of Chicago Press behalf of Vanderbilt Univ. P
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0826512798
• ISBN 13: 9780826512796
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428
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