William James :

Richardson, Robert D., 1934-

William James : in the maelstrom of American modernism : a biography / Robert D. Richardson. - New York : Houghton Mifflin, 2006. - ix, 622 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 530-589) and index.

I. Growing up zigzag: -- Art is my vocation -- Newport and the Jameses -- The father -- Harvard, 1861 -- Science and the Civil War -- Comparative anatomy and medical school -- The gulls at the mouth of the Amazon -- Tea squalls and a life according to nature -- We must be our own providence -- A dead and drifting life -- Minnie Temple -- William James, M.D. -- Treading water -- The end of youth -- II. The action of consciousness: Hitting bottom -- Turning to physiology -- The Metaphysical Club and Chauncey Wright -- Charles Pierce -- Cambridge and Harvard, 1872 -- Teaching -- To Europe and back -- Emerson, Mill, and Blood -- From physiology to physiological psychology -- Days of rapture and heartbreak -- The trouble with Herbert Spencer -- The action of consciousness -- III. The principles of Psychology: Spaces -- The heart wants its chance -- The feeling of effort -- Hegel in Cambridge -- Death of a mother -- Goodbye, my sacred old father -- The wonderful stream of our consciousness -- Not a simple temperament -- What is an emotion? -- The literary remains of Henry James Sr. -- The death of Herman -- Mrs. Leonora Piper -- My only absolutely satisfying companion (Alice) -- Hypnotism and summers at Chocorua -- Instinct and will -- Santayana at Harvard -- The psychology of belief -- Reunion with Alice: the hidden self -- IV. The varieties of religious experience: Response to "Principles" and the moral philosopher -- Flooded by the deep life -- The death of Alice James -- European sabbatical -- Abnormal Psych -- Talks to teachers -- Sarah, Rosina, and Pauline -- Is life worth living? -- The gospel of relaxation -- The right to believe -- High tide -- Walpurgisnacht -- California -- A certain blindness -- The logic of the absolute -- Religion is real -- The religion of healthy-mindedness -- The sick soul: slouching toward Edinburgh -- The twice-born -- Voluntary poverty -- The mystical center -- V. The Philosopher: William James at 60 -- Bergson -- The Ph.D. Octopus and John Dewey's New School -- Emerson -- The true Harvard -- A life of interruptions -- The many and the one -- The modern moment: radical empiricism -- Schiller versus Bradley versus James -- Royce: pragmatic stirrings -- William and Henry -- California dreaming -- Earthquake -- A general theory of human action -- Pragmatism -- The energies of men -- The Harvard elective system applied to the universe -- The true race of prophets -- A pluralistic universe -- Psychical researches redux -- The meaning of truth -- Ever not quite -- Chronology -- James family genealogy.

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James, William, 1842-1910.


Philosophers--United States--Biography.

B945.J24 / R53 2006

191 / RIC-W 2006 5300