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William James and the Art of Popular Statement

Author : Paul Stob
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 162895048X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book William James and the Art of Popular Statement written by Paul Stob and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. Sought after around the country, James developed his ideas in lecture halls and via essays and books intended for general audiences. Reaching out to and connecting with these audiences was crucial to James—so crucial that in 1903 he identified “popular statement,” or speaking and writing in a way that animated the thought of popular audiences, as the “highest form of art.” Paul Stob’s thought-provoking history traces James’s art of popular statement through pivotal lectures, essays, and books, including his 1878 lectures in Baltimore and Boston, “Talks to Teachers on Psychology,” “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” and “Pragmatism.” The book explores James’s unique approach to public address, which involved crafting lectures in science, religion, and philosophy around ordinary people and their experiences. With democratic bravado, James confronted those who had accumulated power through various systems of academic and professional authority, and argued that intellectual power should be returned to the people. Stob argues that James gave those he addressed a central role in the pursuit of knowledge and fostered in them a new intellectual curiosity unlike few scholars before or since.

Intellectual Populism

Author : Paul Stob
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953977
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Intellectual Populism written by Paul Stob and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to denunciations of populism as undemocratic and anti-intellectual, Intellectual Populism argues that populism has contributed to a distinct and democratic intellectual tradition in which ordinary people assume leading roles in the pursuit of knowledge. Focusing on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, the decades that saw the birth of populism in the United States, this book uses case studies of certain intellectual figures to trace the key rhetorical appeals that proved capable of resisting the status quo and building alternative communities of inquiry. As this book shows, Robert Ingersoll (1833–1899), Mary Baker Eddy (1821–1910), Thomas Davidson (1840–1900), Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), and Zitkála-Šá (1876–1938) deployed populist rhetoric to rally ordinary people as thinkers in new intellectual efforts. Through these case studies, Intellectual Populism demonstrates how orators and advocates can channel the frustrations and energies of the American people toward productive, democratic, intellectual ends.

William James and the Moral Life

Author : Todd Lekan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000567850
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book William James and the Moral Life written by Todd Lekan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a compelling new interpretation of James’ moral philosophy: an "ethics of responsible self-fashioning." James’ performative writing style articulates this conception by showing how moral inquiry serves both social and personal transformation. James the social moral philosopher seeks to create an inclusive moral order through expansion of sympathetic concern among those committed to different ideals. James the existential moral philosopher defends the right to adopt hope-grounding metaphysical beliefs which encourage strenuous moral action in the face of evil and suffering. The power of James’ ethics is demonstrated by its application to current discussions about the status of marginalized nonhuman animals and that of the cognitively disabled. William James and the Moral Life is of interest to a wide variety of ethicists and has special appeal to scholars and advanced students in moral philosophy, social philosophy, pragmatism, and American philosophy.

William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life

Author : Jacob L. Goodson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739190148
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life written by Jacob L. Goodson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into these conversations, there is uncertainty about where his thinking fits. While utilitarianism has become the default position for teaching James’s pragmatism and radical empiricism, this default position fails to address and explain James’s multiple criticisms of John Stuart Mill’s formulaic approach to questions concerning the moral life. Through close readings of James’s writings, the chapters in William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life catalogue the ways in whichJames wants to avoid the following: (a) the hierarchies of Christian natural law theory, (b) the moral calculus of Mill’s utilitarianism, (c) the absolutism and principle-ism of Immanuel Kant’s deontology, and (d) the staticity of the virtues found in Aristotle’s moral theory. Elaborating upon and clarifying James’s differences from these dominant moral theories is a crucial feature of this collection. This collection, is not, however, intended to be wholly negative – that is, only describing to readers what James’s moral theory is not. It seeks to articulate the positive features of James’s ethics and moral reasoning: what does it mean to an ethical life, and how should we theorize about morality?

William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture

Author : Deborah Whitehead
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018242
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture written by Deborah Whitehead and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in nineteenth-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture.

Psychology

Author : William James
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486120953
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Psychology written by William James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic text examines habit, consciousness, self, discrimination, the sense of time, memory, perception, imagination, reasoning, instincts, volition, much more. This edition omits the outdated first nine chapters.

George Santayana’s and William James’s Conflicting Views on Transcendence

Author : Antonio Rionda
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031666011
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book George Santayana’s and William James’s Conflicting Views on Transcendence written by Antonio Rionda and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking Pragmatism

Author : Robert Schwartz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470674695
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Pragmatism written by Robert Schwartz and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rethinking Pragmatism explores the work of the American Pragmatists, particularly James and Dewey, challenging entrenched views of their positions on truth, meaning, instrumentalism, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. It clarifies pragmatic ideas and arguments spelling out the significant implications they have for present-day philosophical controversies. Explores the work of the American Pragmatists, especially James and Dewey, on the issues of truth, reference, meaning, instrumentalism, essences, realism, pluralism and religious beliefs. The only available publication to provide a detailed commentary on James's book, Pragmatism, while exploring the implications of the American Pragmatists' ideas and arguments for contemporary philosophical issues Challenges standard readings of the American Pragmatists' positions in a way that illuminates and questions the assumptions underlying current discussions of these topics. Coherently arranged by structuring the book around the themes discussed in each chapter of James's original work. Provides a new analysis and understanding of the pragmatic theory of truth and semantics.

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

Author : John Kaag
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691192162
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Sick Souls, Healthy Minds written by John Kaag and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James believed that philosophy was meant to articulate, and help answer, a single existential question, one which lent itself to the title of one of his most famous essays: "Is life worth living?" Through examination of an array of existentially loaded topics covered in his works-truth, God, evil, suffering, death, and the meaning of life-James concluded that it is up to us to make life worth living. He said that our beliefs, the truths that guide our lives, matter-their value and veracity turn on the way they play out practically for ourselves and our communities. For James, philosophy was about making life meaningful, and for some of us, liveable. This is the core of his "pragmatic maxim," that truth should be judged on the bases of its practical consequences. Kaag shows how James put this maxim into use in his philosophy and his life and how we can do so in our own. .

The Jamesian Mind

Author : Sarin Marchetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639112
Total Pages : 725 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book The Jamesian Mind written by Sarin Marchetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 725 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William James (1842–1910) is widely regarded as the founding figure of modern psychology and one of the most important philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Renowned for his philosophical theory of pragmatism and memorable turns of phrase, such as ‘stream of consciousness’ and the ‘will to believe’, he made enormous contributions to a rich array of philosophical subjects, from the emotions and free will to religion, ethics, and the meaning of life. The Jamesian Mind covers the major aspects of James’s thought, from his early influences to his legacy, with over forty chapters by an outstanding roster of international contributors. It is organized into seven parts: Intellectual Biography Psychology, Mind, and Self Ethics, Religion, and Politics Method, Truth, and Knowledge Philosophical Encounters Legacy. In these sections fundamental topics are examined, including James’s conceptions of philosophical and scientific inquiry, habit, self, free will and determinism, pragmatism, truth, and pluralism. Considerable attention is also devoted to James in relation to the intellectual traditions of empiricism and Romanticism as well as to such other philosophical schools as utilitarianism, British idealism, Logical Empiricism, and existentialism. James’s thought is also situated in an interdisciplinary context, including modernism, sociology, and politics, showcasing his legacy in psychology and ethics. An indispensable resource for anyone studying and researching James’s philosophy, The Jamesian Mind will also interest those in related disciplines such as psychology, religion, and sociology.

The Will to Believe

Author : William James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Will to Believe written by William James and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment

Author : William James
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment written by William James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-18 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Great Men, Great Thoughts, and The Environment" by William James. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Exploring Unseen Worlds

Author : George William Barnard
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791432235
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Unseen Worlds written by George William Barnard and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Unseen Worlds is a critically sophisticated, yet gripping immersion into the inner worlds of one of America's foremost thinkers. It demonstrates convincingly the extent to which James's psychological and philosophical perspectives continue to be a rich resource for those specifically interested in the study of mysticism. The book focuses on James's enduring fascination with mysticism and not only unearths James's lesser-known works on mysticism, but also probes into the tacit mystical dimensions of James's personal life and uncovers the mystical implications of his decades long interest in psychical research.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527467
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book The Varieties of Religious Experience written by William James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics

Author : John D. Kerkering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108841899
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics written by John D. Kerkering and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the political contexts in which nineteenth-century American literature was conceived, consumed, and criticized. It shows how a variety of literary genres and forms, such as poetry, drama, fiction, oratory, and nonfiction, engaged with political questions and participated in political debate.

Building a Social Democracy

Author : Robert Danisch
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498517781
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Building a Social Democracy written by Robert Danisch and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism at the beginning of the twentieth century is that rhetorical practices are the rightful object of study and means of improving democratic life. Pragmatism entails a commitment to rhetoric. Rhetorical pragmatism is intended to be more faithful to the project of first generation pragmatism, to offer insight into the ways in which rhetoric operates in contemporary democratic cultures, to recommend practices, methods, and modes of action for improving contemporary democratic cultures, and to subordinate philosophy to rhetoric by reimagining appropriate ways for pragmatist scholarship and social research to advance.

Resowing the Seeds of War

Author : Stephen J. Heidt
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628954183
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Resowing the Seeds of War written by Stephen J. Heidt and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending a war, as Fred Charles Iklé wrote, poses a much greater challenge than beginning one. In addition to issues related to battle tactics, prisoners of war, diplomatic relations, and cease-fire negotiations, ending war involves domestic political calculations. Balancing the tides of public opinion versus policy needs poses a deep and enduring problem for presidents. In a first-of-its-kind study, Resowing the Seeds of War explains how Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Nixon, and Obama managed the political, policy, and bureaucratic challenges that arise at the end of war via a series of rhetorical choices that reframe, modify, or unravel depictions of national enemies, the cause of the conflict, and the stakes for the nation and world. This end-of-war rhetoric justifies ending hostilities, rationalizes postwar national policy, argues for the construction of postwar security arrangements, and often sustains public support for massive financial investment in reconstruction. By tracking presidential manipulations of savage imagery from World War II to the War on Terror, this book concludes that even as metaphoric reframing facilitates exit from conflict, it incurs unexpected consequences that make national involvement in the next conflict more likely.