William James The Essential Writings
William James: The Essential Writings by William James, published by State University of New York Press on June 30, 1984, is a comprehensive collection that offers a systematic introduction to the major philosophical discoveries of the author. This edition spans 369 pages and is presented in English, focusing on key doctrines and theories that remain relevant in contemporary discussions within philosophy and psychology.
Readers will find a series of philosophical arguments addressing complex issues such as the relationship between thought and its object, the interplay of meaning and truth, and the nature of the embodied self. The writings delve into the connections between ethics, aesthetics, and religious experience, emphasizing the active nature of humanity. Additionally, Bruce Wilshire’s introduction enriches the text by providing substantial insights into William James’s thought, making this collection a valuable resource for those interested in modern philosophy and its historical context.
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The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of most burning current interest. William James: The Essential Writings is a series of philosophical arguments on some of the most “obscure and head-cracking problems” in contemporary philosophy; the relation of thought to its object; the interrelationships between meaning and truth; the levels and structures of experience; the degrees of reality; the nature of the embodied self; the relation of ethics, aesthetics, and religious experience to man’s strenuously and “heroically” active nature; and, above all, the structurization of the experienced life-world as the validating ground and origin of all theory; Bruce Wilshire has provided an introduction to William James’s thought on these and other related points which is at once both substantial and subtle.
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