Understanding James, understanding modernism
"Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer--William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James's influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the other, a compendium of some of the most up…
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- Full title :Understanding James, understanding modernism / edited by David H. Evans.
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"Psychologist, philosopher, teacher, writer--William James stood closer than any other thinker to the center of the confluence of intellectual and artistic forces that defined the culture of modernism. The outstanding feature of this volume lies in its intent to investigate James's influence on both American and International Modernism. It provides, on the one hand, a multifaceted introduction to students of history, philosophy, and culture, and on the other, a compendium of some of the most up-to-date thinking on this central figure. James's first book, Principles of Psychology (1890) immediately established James as the leading psychologist of his time, at a moment in history when psychology seemed to offer the promise of finding some definitive answers to eternal philosophical conundra. James's innovations would register a clear effect on much modernist art, most evidently in the stylistic prose experiments of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and their imitators. James's tentative skepticism concerning the concept of consciousness as such, and the post-Cartesian ego that was its foundation, also anticipates the questioning of the subject that would be the theme of much modern, and indeed postmodern thought. The contributors to this volume explore James's most essential texts as well as his influence on contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers. The final section is a glossary of James's key terms, with entries written by leading experts."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 315 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781501302763, 1501302760, 9781501302756, 1501302752, 9781501302770, 1501302779
- oclc:ocn971020778
- LC Classification:B945.J24
- Dewey Decimal:191
Table of Contents
Introduction: unstiffening all our theories: William James and the culture of modernism / David H. Evans -- Conceptualizing James. The character of consciousness / Owen Flanagan and Heather Wallace -- Redeeming the wild universe: William James's Will to believe / John J. Stuhr -- The psychology of religion: William James's The varieties of religious experience / Michael Bacon -- The human contribution: James and modernity in pragmatism and The meaning of truth / Alan Malachowski -- Ever not William James's A pluralistic universe / Barry Allen -- James's radical empiricism / James Campbell -- James and modernist culture. James and Bergson: fighting the beast intellectualism with metaphors / Rosa Slegers -- William James, Henry James and the turn toward modernism / Jill Kress Karn -- "Never reject anything. Nothing has been proved": William James and Gertrude Stein on time and language / David H. Evans -- The varieties of Robert Frost's religious experience / Mark Richardson -- Notes toward the specious present: James and Stevens / Kristen Case -- Modernist figures and James's pluralistic universe / Patricia Rae -- William James's stream of consciousness and the river of the unconsc…
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