William James in Russian Culture

by Grossman, Joan Delaney; Rischin, Ruth; Clowes, Edith W.; Etkind, Alexander; Horowitz, Brian; Joravsky, David; Miller, Robin Feuer; Obatnin, Gennady; Orwin, Donna Tussing; Poole, Randall A.; Scherr, Barry P.; Simon, Linda; Wachtel, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780739105276
• ISBN10: 0739105272
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-04
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Editors Joan Grossman and Ruth Rischin pose to their contributors an intriguing question: What happens when the ideas of a thinker like William James, who--despite his originality--was deeply rooted in American traditions, are refracted through a culture that draws on a heritage profoundly different from his own? Including studies of reception and interpretation of James's major works and analyses of the impact of his own philosophy on certain Russian writers and thinkers, William James in Russian Culture reveals striking parallels among and divergences between the intellectual and the spiritual realms.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
A Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Bibliographies	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Joan Delaney Grossman
Ruth Rischin
William James: The European Connection	15	(18)
Linda Simon
Adventures in Time and Space: Dostoevsky, William James, and the Perilous Journey to Conversion	33	(26)
Robin Feuer Miller
What Men Live By: Belief and the Individual in Leo Tolstoy and William James	59	(22)
Donna Tussing Orwin
``The Moral Equivalent of War'': Violence in the Later Fiction of Leo Tolstoy	81	(12)
Andrew Wachtel
Philosophers, Decadents, and Mystics: James's Russian Readers in the 1890s	93	(20)
Joan Delaney Grossman
James and Viacheslav Ivanov at the ``Threshold of Consciousness''	113	(18)
Gennady Obatnin
William James in the Moscow Psychological Society: Pragmatism, Pluralism, Personalism	131	(28)
Randall A. Poole
Lev Shestov's James: ``A Knight of Free Creativity''	159	(10)
Brian Horowitz
James and Konovalov: The Varieties of Religious Experience and Russian Theology between Revolutions	169	(20)
Alexander Etkind
Gorky and God-Building	189	(22)
Barry P. Scherr
James and Vocabularies of Post-Soviet Russian Spirituality	211	(14)
Edith W. Clowes
Afterword: William James in Contexts, Plural	225	(18)
David Joravsky
William James Bibliography	243	(4)
Index	247	(10)
About the Contributors	257