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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Simon, Linda, 1946- Genuine reality. New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1998 (OCoLC)605311928 Online version: Simon, Linda, 1946- Genuine reality. New York : Harcourt Brace, ©1998 (OCoLC)630996493 |
Named Person: | William James; William James; William James; William James; William James |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Linda Simon |
ISBN: | 0151930988 9780151930982 |
OCLC Number: | 37457775 |
Description: | xxiii, 467 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Mortification -- Gestation -- Appetites and affections: 1847-1855 -- Other people's rules: 1855-1860 -- Spiritual dangers: 1860-1865 -- Descent: 1866-1870 -- Absolute beginnings: 1870-1874 -- Engaged: 1875-1882 -- Entirely new segment of life: 1882-1884 -- Lost child: 1885-1887 -- Family romance: 1888-1890 -- Surcharged with vitality: 1890-1893 -- Real fights: 1894-1896 -- Civic genius: 1897-1898 -- Gleam of the end: 1899-1901 -- Temper of peace: 1902-1905 -- Mental pirouettes: 1906-1907 -- Pitch of life: 1908-1909 -- Eclipse: 1910. |
Responsibility: | Linda Simon. |
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Abstract:
This first full biography of William James in nearly a generation brings us the man alive in all his complexity. Intellectual rebel, romantic pragmatist, aristocratic pluralist, James was both a towering figure of the nineteenth century and a springboard into the twentieth. Constitutionally opposed to the rigidity and stability of the nineteenth century, James guided his generation toward the ambivalence, unpredictability, and indeterminacy of the times that followed. His explorations of pluralism and pragmatism nurtured ideas that continue to shape our society. Profiting from a rich range of sources, among them 1,500 letters written between James and his wife, Alice, Linda Simon creates an intimate portrait of this multifaceted and contradictory man.
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