Understanding James, understanding modernism

by Evans, David H.

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Full title :Understanding James, understanding modernism. / David H. Evans.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017.

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Description:272 pages.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781501302749, 1501302744
oclc:ocn957546142
Dewey Decimal:810/820

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