The divided self of William James
This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James's philosophy moves and the inevitable contradictions that arise as a result. The first part of the book explores a range of James's doctrines in which he refuses to privilege any particular perspective: ethics, belief, free will, truth and meaning. The second part of the book turns to those doctrines where James privileges the perspective of mystical experience. Ri…
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- Full title :The divided self of William James / Richard M. Gale.
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This book offers a powerful interpretation of the philosophy of William James. It focuses on the multiple directions in which James's philosophy moves and the inevitable contradictions that arise as a result. The first part of the book explores a range of James's doctrines in which he refuses to privilege any particular perspective: ethics, belief, free will, truth and meaning. The second part of the book turns to those doctrines where James privileges the perspective of mystical experience. Richard Gale then shows how the relativistic tendencies can be reconciled with James's account of mystical experience. An appendix considers the distorted picture of James's philosophy that has been refracted down to us through the interpretations of his work by John Dewey.
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- Publication Date:1999
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999
Notes
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 364 Seiten)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139173292, 1139173294, 9780521642699, 0521642698, 9780521037785, 0521037786
- DOI:10.1017/CBO9781139173292
- oclc:ocn967412760
- LC Classification:B945.J24
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
The ethics of Prometheanism -- The willfulness of belief -- The freedom of belief -- The will to believe -- The ethics of truth -- The semantics of "truth" -- Ontological relativism: William James meets Poo-bah -- The self -- The I-thou quest for intimacy and religious mysticism -- The Humpty-Dumpty intuition and Panpsychism -- Attempts at a one-world interpretation of James.
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