Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: unstiffening all our theories: William James and the culture of modernism / David H. Evans -- Conceptualizing James. The character of consciousness / Owen Flanagan and Heather Wallace -- Redeeming the wild universe: William James's Will to believe / John J. Stuhr -- The psychology of religion: William James's The varieties of religious experience / Michael Bacon -- The human contribution: James and modernity in pragmatism and The meaning of truth / Alan Malachowski -- Ever not William James's A pluralistic universe / Barry Allen -- James's radical empiricism / James Campbell -- James and modernist culture. James and Bergson: fighting the beast intellectualism with metaphors / Rosa Slegers -- William James, Henry James and the turn toward modernism / Jill Kress Karn -- "Never reject anything. Nothing has been proved": William James and Gertrude Stein on time and language / David H. Evans -- The varieties of Robert Frost's religious experience / Mark Richardson -- Notes toward the specious present: James and Stevens / Kristen Case -- Modernist figures and James's pluralistic universe / Patricia Rae -- William James's stream of consciousness and the river of the unconscious Joyce and Proust / Gian Balsamo -- "That skilful but slow-moving arranger": habit in James and Proust / Lisi Schoenbach -- William James and Italian pragmatism / Giovanni Maddalena and Michela Bella -- James's pluralism and the problems of modern political and social thought / Robert Danisch.
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