Be Not Afraid of Life : : In the Words of William James / / William James; ed. by John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle.
A compelling collection of the life-changing writings of William JamesWilliam James—psychologist, philosopher, and spiritual seeker—is one of those rare writers who can speak directly and powerfully to anyone about life’s meaning and worth, and whose ideas change not only how people think but how th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Determinism and Despair
- 1 Letter to Thomas Wren Ward (1868)
- 2 “ The Sick Soul,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- 3 “ The Dilemma of Determinism” (1897)
- Freedom and Life
- 4 “ The Will to Believe” (1897)
- 5 “ Is Life Worth Living?” (1897)
- Psychology and the Healthy Mind
- 6 “ What Makes a Life Significant” (1900)
- 7 Chapter IX, “The Stream of Thought,” and Chapter X, “The Consciousness of Self,” from The Principles of Psychology (1890)
- 8 “ The Energies of Men” (1907)
- Consciousness and Transcendence
- 9 A Review of Benjamin Paul Blood’s The Anesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy (1874)
- 10 “ On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings” (1899)
- Truth and Consequences
- 11 “What Pragmatism Means” (1903)
- 12 “ The Moral Equivalent of War” (1903)
- Wonder and Hope
- 13 “Mysticism,” from The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
- 14 “Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine” (1897)
- 15 “A Pluralistic Mystic” (1910)
- Index