{"product_id":"a-pluralistic-universe-william-james-9780803275911","title":"A Pluralistic Universe","description":"In his famous lectures at Oxford University in 1908 and 1909, William James made a sustained and eloquent case against absolute idealism and intellectualism in philosophy. Ever since Socrates and Plato, the philosophy of the absolute had held sway--the emphasis on essence at the expense of concrete appearance, the insistence on a coherent universe, abstract, timeless, finished, enclosed in its totality. James's own thinking led him to renounce monistic idealism and the intellectualization of all \"truth.\" \u003cp\u003eGoing against the grain of entrenched philosophy, James argues in \u003ci\u003eA Pluralistic Universe\u003c\/i\u003e that the world is not a uni-verse but a multi-verse. He honors the human experience of manyness and disconnection (and various kinds of unity) in the world of flux and sensation, a world that is discounted scornfully by the monists. \"Pluralistic empiricism,\" as James called it, permits intellectual freedom, while the artificial concepts of monism do not. It approaches the only reality that has any meaning, one that follows the pattern of daily experience. \u003ci\u003eA Pluralistic Universe\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eSome Problems in Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEssays in Radical Empiricism\u003c\/i\u003e (also available as Bison Books), is basic to an understanding of James's thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William James\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0803275919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803275911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.93h x 5.30w x 0.86d","brand":"William James","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947205787903,"sku":"9780803275911","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a155304d-1af5-4c73-b767-3c8a33faa52c.jpg?v=1681517351","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-pluralistic-universe-william-james-9780803275911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}