William James and the Metaphysics of Experience

ISBN-13: 9780521581639 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str.

David C. Lamberth

Opis

This book offers a new perspective on the philosopher, psychologist, and religious thinker William James. Using biographical materials, manuscripts, and analysis, the author develops the first systematic reading of James' world-view of radical empiricism, which sought to take concrete, immediate experience as the basis for understanding the world. The book offers close readings of key works by James. Lamberth argues that religion and philosophy themselves are intimately related conceptually for James; and concludes by relating James' conceptions to present debates concerning truth, religious experience, and theological understandings of the divine.

Recenzje

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Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. James's radically empiricist Weltanschauung; 2. From psychology to religion: pure experience and radical empiricism in the 1890s; 3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: Indications of a philosophy adapted to normal religious needs; 4. Squaring logic and life: making philosophy intimate in A Pluralistic Universe; 5. Estimations and anticipations; Select bibliography; Index.