William James Sciences Of Mind And Anti Imperial Discourse

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107026954
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107419292
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Sciences of the Mind, and Anti-imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind at the turn of the twenty-first century via the texts of philosopher and psychologist William James.

Author : Bernadette M. Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434351
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Sciences of Mind, and Anti-Imperial Discourse written by Bernadette M. Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades, the humanities and social sciences have developed new methods of reorienting their conceptual frameworks in a 'world without frontiers'. In this book, Bernadette M. Baker offers an innovative approach to rethinking sciences of mind as they formed at the turn of the twentieth century, via the concerns that have emerged at the turn of the twenty-first. The less-visited texts of Harvard philosopher and psychologist William James provide a window into contemporary debates over principles of toleration, anti-imperial discourse and the nature of ethics. Baker revisits Jamesian approaches to the formation of scientific objects including the child mind, exceptional mental states and the ghost to explore the possibilities and limits of social scientific thought dedicated to mind development and discipline formation around the construct of the West.

Author : Alexander Livingston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190237171
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damn Great Empires! written by Alexander Livingston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Damn Great Empires! offers a new perspective on the works of William James by placing his encounter with American imperialism at the center of his philosophical vision. This book reconstructs James's overlooked political thought by treating his anti-imperialist Nachlass -- his speeches, essays, notes, and correspondence on the United States' annexation of the Philippines -- as the key to unlocking the political significance of his celebrated writings on psychology, religion, and philosophy. It shows how James located a craving for authority at the heart of empire as a way of life, a craving he diagnosed and unsettled through his insistence on a modern world without ultimate foundations. Livingston explores the persistence of political questions in James's major works, from his writings on the self in The Principles of Psychology to the method of Pragmatism, the study of faith and conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience, and the metaphysical inquiries in A Pluralistic Universe. Against the conventional view of James as a thinker who remained silent on questions of politics, this book places him in dialogue with a transatlantic critique of modernity, as well as with champions and critics of American imperialism, from Theodore Roosevelt to W. E. B. Du Bois, in order to excavate James's anarchistic political vision. Bringing the history of political thought into conversation with contemporary debates in political theory, Damn Great Empires! offers a fresh and original reexamination of the political consequences of pragmatism as a public philosophy.

Author : Paul J. Croce
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423650
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young William James Thinking written by Paul J. Croce and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, Young William James Thinking reveals how James provided a humane vision well suited to our pluralist age.

Author : Tavis D. Jules
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178754852X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Educational Intelligent Economy written by Tavis D. Jules and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines, from a comparative perspective, the impact of the movement from the so-called knowledge-based economy towards the Intelligent Economy, which is premised upon the application of knowledge. This volume links the advent of this new technological revolution to the world of governance and policy formulation in education.

Author : Deborah Whitehead
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253018242
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture written by Deborah Whitehead and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Continues and adds to a rich conversation among American philosophers concerning the origins of pragmatism and its possibilities for the future.” —William Gavin, University of Southern Maine William James, Pragmatism, and American Culture focuses on the work of William James and the relationship between the development of pragmatism and its historical, cultural, and political roots in nineteenth-century America. Deborah Whitehead reads pragmatism through the intersecting themes of narrative, gender, nation, politics, and religion. As she considers how pragmatism helps to explain the United States to itself, Whitehead articulates a contemporary pragmatism and shows how it has become a powerful and influential discourse in American intellectual and popular culture.

Author : Joshua I. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Temperament written by Joshua I. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American psychologist and pragmatist philosopher James (1842- 1910) is generally considered too individualistic to have had any interest in politics, but Miller argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work. He finds in James a theorist of action, explores the complexities of his theory, and related his thought to Miller's own experience as a political activist and scholar. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : George Cotkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William James, Public Philosopher written by George Cotkin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cotkin provides a gracefully written and consistently intelligent defense of James and pragmatism that deserves a wide audience among intellectual historians and their students."--Robert C. Bannister, "American Historical Review."

Author : Erin C. Tarver
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076941
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Interpretations of William James written by Erin C. Tarver and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the father of American psychology, William James is by any measure a mammoth presence on the stage of pragmatist philosophy. But despite his indisputable influence on philosophical thinkers of all genders, men remain the movers and shakers in the Jamesian universe—while women exist primarily to support their endeavors and serve their needs. How could the philosophy of William James, a man devoted to Victorian ideals, be used to support feminism? Feminist Interpretations of William James lays out the elements of James’s philosophy that are particularly problematic for feminism, offers a novel feminist approach to James’s ethical philosophy, and takes up epistemic contestations in and with James’s pragmatism. The results are surprising. In short, James’s philosophy can prove useful for feminist efforts to challenge sexism and male privilege, in spite of James himself. In this latest installment of the Re-Reading the Canon series, contributors appeal to William James’s controversial texts not simply as an exercise in feminist critique but in the service of feminism. Along with the editors, the contributors are Jeremy Carrette, Lorraine Code, Megan Craig, Susan Dieleman, Jacob L. Goodson, Maurice Hamington, Erin McKenna, José Medina, and Charlene Haddock Seigfried.