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The Writings of William James: A Comprehensive Edition (Modern Library Giant, No. G96) Hardcover – 1968

by William James (Author), John J. McDermott (Editor, Introduction)

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Hardcover: 858 pages
Publisher: Modern Library; 1st edition (1968)
Language: English
ASIN: B0006BT28O
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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AN EXCELLENT (TOPICALLY-ARRANGED) COLLECTION OF JAMES’S WRITINGS

By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on January 15, 2015

William James (1842-1910) was an American philosopher (noted for his influence on Pragmatism) and psychologist (the first educator to offer a psychology course in the U.S.; see his Principles of Psychology); he was also the brother of the novelist Henry James. He wrote many other books, such as Pragmatism and The Meaning of Truth, The Will to Believe, Essays in Radical Empiricism, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Moral Equivalent of War and Other Essays, Some Problems of Philosophy, The Selected Letters of William James, etc.

This book contains a very comprehensive collection of James’s writings (mostly relatively brief excerpts, rather than entire pieces) on a wide variety of subjects, subdivided into: I.Read more ›

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AN EXCELLENT (TOPICALLY-ARRANGED) COLLECTION OF JAMES’S WRITINGS

By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on January 15, 2015

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Massive and Inscrutable.

By Stephan Onisick on July 26, 2014

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I probably need a William James primer. I could not breach this tomb.

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consciousness explained, denied...

By Kevin Fuller on September 4, 2013

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this book is worth the price just for the writings on consciousness, of which only i will comment, as an entire review would take pages and pages of text.

james, in his articles on consciousness first points up the classic view, the radical divide between mind and matter. the world around us, subject to entropy and the arrow of time, works in one direction. there is a birth, maturation, and death in everything surrounding us. known through the senses, there is an objective world we shoud seek to grasp and understand as thinking human beings. however, one quickly discovers the mind is not as 'mechanical' and predictable as the world we observe. we know that fire burns, yet we can think strongly on a fire in the winter cold, and not be warmed. further, we can think strongly of a fire that does not burn us, and water that does not douse it's flames. finally, we can reverse the arrow of time, thinking strongly again, of an apple leaving the ground and floating to the stem of the branch of the tree. obviously the mind is separate from matter in it' operations and laws that govern it, correct?

well let us now behold something beautiful, truly beautiful to us and not be moved by it's beauty. here, james brillianty discovers, the mind merges with the objective world to the point the experiencing subject is the same as the experienced object. we melt into the object of beauty, forgetting ourselves.....

this is but one expample of pure experience that destroys the notion of the dichotomy between the subjects and objects of normal consciuosness james points up.

interesting read, a bridge between the views that came before; either a radical distinction lying between mind and matter, that the universe is dual..or that of the unifying kind...that the world can at least tenuously during 'pure experiences' become One...

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