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9780197664629

No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism

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    9780197664629

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    0197664628

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2022-11-04
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues.

Drawing on and illuminating the entirety of James's work, Stuhr explores James's psychology, his account of religious experience and his “will to believe” thesis, his pragmatism, his radical empiricism, his pluralism, and his writing on politics, democracy, and imperialism. Throughout, Stuhr engages the wide-ranging scholarship on James's philosophy and explores connections between James and the work of Bergson, Deleuze, Dewey, Peirce, Rorty, and Whitehead, as well as intellectual movements including contemporary democratic theory, positive psychology, and philosophical naturalism.

After establishing the need to approach James's writings as intimately interwoven, Stuhr turns to each of James's major texts, including The Will to Believe, Principles of Psychology, Varieties of Religious Experience, Pragmatism, The Meaning of Truth, and Essays in Radical Empiricism. His focus throughout is practical, showing the concrete differences it makes in one's life should one take up a broadly Jamesian perspective across the “ever not quite” endeavors of our finite lives. “From this unsparing practical ordeal,” James noted, “no professor's lectures and no array of books can save us.” In this spirit, this book does not by itself, promise salvation. Instead, it is a master class not only in the philosophy of William James but in a new philosophy through James's thought.

Author Biography


John J. Stuhr is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies at Emory University. He has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania State University, University of Oregon, and Whitman College and visiting appointments in Freiburg, Germany and Melbourne, Australia. Specializing in 19th- and 20th-century American and European philosophy, ethics, and politics, he is the author or editor of a dozen books and over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. He is Editor of the Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Series Editor of American Philosophy, and Founding Director of the American Philosophies Forum.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments
Abbreviations of The Works of William James
Introduction
Chapter 1: Possibilities, Faith, and Action: Redeeming the Wild Universe through The Will to Believe
Chapter 2: Avoiding Old-Fogeyism: Plasticity, Habits of Genius, and Acts of Greatness
Chapter 3: More Inclusive Ideals: Ethical Lives After Old-Fashioned Moral Philosophy
Chapter 4: The Political Philosopher and the Political Life
Chapter 5: The Temperament of Pragmatism
Chapter 6: Everything Here Is Plastic: Radical Empiricism and Worlds of Relations
Chapter 7: Pluralism Unconcluded
Works Cited
Index

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