Becoming William James /

For William James, work was the problem. Ultimately, going to work was the resolution, and James's quest for meaningful work remains as relevant at the end of the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth. Weaving letters, diaries, drawings, and published texts, Becoming William James provi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Feinstein, Howard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Edición:With a New Introduction
Temas:
Philosophers > United States > Biography.
Psychologists > United States > Biography.
Biography & Autobiography.
Philosophy.
U.S. History.
PHILOSOPHY / Individual Philosophers.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Photographs
  • DRAWINGS
  • Introduction
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Prologue
  • BOOK ONE: GRANDFATHER
  • 1. Tenants Become Landlords
  • BOOK TWO: FATHER
  • 2. A Crime against Childhood
  • 3. Flight from Union
  • 4. A Conflict of Wills
  • 5. Ideology for a Prodigal
  • 6. Words and Work
  • BOOK THREE: SON
  • 7. A Painter's Vocation
  • 8. The Murdered Self
  • 9. Evolution at Harvard
  • 10. Basic Science vs. the Humbug of Medicine
  • 11. Vacation in Brazil
  • 12. The Use and Abuse of Illness
  • 13. An Invalid Physician
  • 14. A Singular Life
  • 15. An Ontological Window
  • 16. Two Brothers at War and a Sister at Home
  • 17. Declining Fortunes
  • 18. A Sort of Fatality
  • 19. Professor James
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index

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