William James: The Essential Writings (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873959346)

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.

Author: Bruce Wilshire
ISBN-10: 0873959345
ISBN-13: 9780873959346
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 06/30/1984
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.06w x 1.05d