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William James and the Transatlantic Conversation focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James's encounters with European thinkers and ideas ran throughout his early life and across his distinguished international career, in which he participated in a number of
transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature. This volume explores and extends these conversations by drawing together twelve scholars from a range of disciplines on both
sides of the Atlantic to assess James's work in all its variety, to trace his multidisciplinary reception across the twentieth century, and to evaluate his legacy in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book considers James's many intellectual influences and the second half focuses on A Pluralistic Universe (1909), the published text of his 1908 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford University, as a key text for assessing James's transatlantic conversations. The pluralistic
transatlantic currents addressed in the first part of the volume enable a fuller understanding of James's philosophy of pluralism that forms the explicit focus for the second part. Taken as a collection, the volume is
unique in scholarship on James in generating transatlantic, interdisciplinary, and cross-generational dialogues, and it repositions James as an important international thinker and arguably the most distinctive American intellectual figure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
William James and the Transatlantic Conversation focuses on the American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842-1910) and his engagements with European thought, together with the multidisciplinary reception of his work on both sides of the Atlantic since his death. James's encounters with European thinkers and ideas ran throughout his early life and across his distinguished international career, in which he participated in a number of
transatlantic conversations in science, philosophy, psychology, religion, ethics, and literature. This volume explores and extends these conversations by drawing together twelve scholars from a range of disciplines on both
sides of the Atlantic to assess James's work in all its variety, to trace his multidisciplinary reception across the twentieth century, and to evaluate his legacy in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book considers James's many intellectual influences and the second half focuses on A Pluralistic Universe (1909), the published text of his 1908 Hibbert Lectures at Oxford University, as a key text for assessing James's transatlantic conversations. The pluralistic
transatlantic currents addressed in the first part of the volume enable a fuller understanding of James's philosophy of pluralism that forms the explicit focus for the second part. Taken as a collection, the volume is
unique in scholarship on James in generating transatlantic, interdisciplinary, and cross-generational dialogues, and it repositions James as an important international thinker and arguably the most distinctive American intellectual figure of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S. Rasmussen: Introduction: William
James and the Transatlantic Conversation
I: James's Intellectual Contexts
1: Jaime Nubiola: The Reception of William James in Continental
Europe
2: David A. Hollinger: William James, Ecumenical Protestantism, and
the Dynamics of Secularization
3: Richard H. King: Religion, Sociology, and Psychology: William
James and the Re-enchantment of the World
4: Barbara Loerzer: William James, the French Tradition, and the
Incomplete Transposition of the Spiritual into the Aesthetic
5: Peter Kuryla: Vastations and Prosthetics: Henry James Sr. and
the Transatlantic Education of William and Henry James
6: Martin Halliwell: Morbid and Positive Thinking: William James,
Psychology, and Illness
7: Leslie Butler: Encountering the Smashing Projectile: William
James on John Stuart Mill and the Woman Question
II: The Philosophy of Pluralism
8: David C. Lamberth: A Pluralistic Universe a Century Later:
Rationality, Pluralism, and Religion
9: Joel D. S. Rasmussen: William James, A Pluralistic Universe, and
the Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
10: Michael R. Slater: James's Critique of Monistic Idealism in A
Pluralistic Universe
11: Sami Pihlström: Jamesian Pragmatic Pluralism and the Problem of
God
12: Jeremy Carrette: Growing Up Zigzag: Reassessing the
Transatlantic Legacy of William James
Bibliography
Edited by Martin Halliwell and Joel D. S.
Rasmussen
Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester.
Joel D. S. Rasmussen is University Lecturer in
Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought and Fellow of Mansfield
College at the University of Oxford.
lively and insightful ... This volume, with its twelve laboratories
of imaginative inquiry, pushes the boundaries for our understanding
of James.
*Paul Croce, Society for U.S. Intellectual History*
[A]ny reader wishing to be better acquainted with him would be well
advised to consult this book.
*Kate Kirkpatrick, The Way*
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