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Library of America volume 38
Publisher
Literary Classics of the United States
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
1379 p. ; 21 cm.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 58
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
1212 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Description
"This book] initiate[s] the psychological study of religion, paving the way for Freud and Jung as well as for clinical and paranormal branches of psychology. Written with humor and erudition, its theories of conversion, saintliness, ecstasy and mysticism continue to provoke controversy and enquiry. The book remains the best introduction to James's thought, demonstrating his characteristic insistence upon the importance of personal experience and his...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xv, 261 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Chronicles a year in the life of four of the most famous men of the nineteenth century--psychologist William James, his novelist brother Henry, and their purported, troubled younger brothers, notorious outlaws Frank and Jesse James.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
xii, 546 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History a riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., future associate justice of the United States Supreme Court; William James, the father of modern American psychology; and Charles Sanders Peirce, logician, scientist, and...
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and...
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